My Tribal Rule Said Marry Or Matchmake novel · Chapter 25 of 32
Chapter 25: Live
The hall noticed me before it noticed his silence.
Two thousand faces turned toward a woman in a navy blazer carrying a stack of paper.
Bentley found his smile and put it back on.
"Everybody, this is Torrie Sadler. My former COO."
"She's had a hard month. Let's be kind."
A few people laughed, unsure.
"I'm on at two-fifteen," I said. "It's two-twelve. I'll take your last question."
I didn't wait for him to agree.
I turned to the room.
"My name's Torrie Sadler. I co-founded Ridgeline. I wrote the first routing engine at a card table six years ago."
"Bentley's right about the whiteboard. It was mine."
The stage manager, bless him, had already switched the big screen to my laptop.
Ridgeline's routing map came up beside Bentley's green one.
Same map. Same colors. Same little arrow.
The crowd murmured.
"Lots of software looks alike," Bentley said into his microphone, easy. "That's the industry."
"It is," I said. "So let's look at something that shouldn't."
I clicked.
Our loading-dock menu came up next to his.
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