Chapter 369

Alexander

Madison stared at me, her mouth a tight line. She leaned back in her chair and folded her arms. For a long moment, she simply observed me, the way she used to study complicated contracts before finding their fatal flaws.

“You drove all the way from New York,” she finally said, her voice cool and measured, “wasting your precious CEO time, just to ask why I left the job five years ago?” She shook her head. “Go home, Mr. Knight. Go back to your wife. I’m sure Katherine is wondering where you are.”

I flinched at her assumption. “Wife? I’m not married.”

“Fiancée, wife, whatever.” She waved dismissively. “The point is, I’m just an ex-employee. You’ve wasted your time coming here.”

“I’m not married,” I repeated, leaning forward. “Katherine and I never went through with it.”

“Still engaged after five years? How modern of you.” Her tone was dry as desert sand. “Regardless, it doesn’t change anything. I don’t want to talk about why I left.”