Backstage Romance with the Popstar novel · Chapter 18 of 24
Chapter 18: Chapter 18
The Halo Row boardroom had a table of dark wood and seven chairs, and every one of them was full at nine o'clock on Monday.
Five board members sat along the near side.
The chair was a retired attorney with white hair, and he had a gavel he never used.
Maxine sat at his right hand with her glasses in her fist.
Hank had the far end, with two lawyers, a laptop, and the unblurred photograph projected twelve feet wide on the wall behind him.
Devon and I sat across from him, side by side, with the accountant's binder between us.
"Let's begin," the chair said.
Hank rose.
He spoke the way he always did, quietly, so the room leaned in.
"Members of the board. Halo Row's most valuable artist has been compromised."
"His assistant, Laurel Quinn, has been secretly directing his career as a producer under a false name."
"She has used that access to sabotage a rival artist on live television."
"And she has done it in bed with a man she was paid to serve."
He clicked, and the photograph grew brighter on the wall.
The rest of this chapter is part of the paid portion of the series. Chapters 1–12 of Backstage Romance with the Popstar are free to read — start from the beginning, then unlock the rest with coins in the app.
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