Days passed, and good things just kept coming. The Isobel Brooke case had barely been wrapped up when Finn dropped the next bombshell: Rhys's defamation case was going to trial soon. I'd been fuming about it for weeks, but after a month of waiting, my anger had dulled to a simmer. I handed the whole thing over to Finn and wasn't about to waste my time showing up to court. With the LGH lawyer team on his side, Finn had the case wrapped up with hardly any effort. In the end, the court ruled in my favor. Rhys had to pay me twenty grand and issue a public apology. I heard from Finn that Rhys, apparently too busy planning his wedding to bother showing up, had sent his lawyer instead. And he dragged his feet on the apology. I knew what he was thinking: he believed if he bu

