Every resort.
Every expansion.
Then one night, he rewarded me by ordering security to remove me from the building.
The building I had helped create.
The mistress followed behind him.
Wrapped in one of my silk robes.
Holding the antique sapphire brooch my mother left me.
Guests watched.
Employees froze.
Nobody intervened.
Marcus smirked and told me I no longer had any place there.
What he didn't know was that I had protected a secret for over a decade.
A secret hidden behind corporate paperwork.