Chapter 11 - Bianca Gives Rosalie One Missing Email
Bianca resigned.
Before leaving, she sent Rosalie an email.
One attachment.
A message Garrett had written to Daniel Westcott.
It said:
ONCE ROSALIE SIGNS, WE CAN CLEAN UP THE CAP TABLE BEFORE FILING.
Then:
BIANCA THINKS THIS IS ABOUT US. LET HER.
Rosalie stared at the second sentence.
Bianca had been used too.
Garrett promised her a future.
Privately, he described her as useful leverage.
Rosalie forwarded the email to the special committee.
She did not contact Bianca.
Hours later Bianca called anyway.
“He never planned to marry me.”
Rosalie answered carefully.
“I don’t know what he planned.”
“The email says enough.”
“Yes.”
Bianca cried.
Then apologized for the chair.
The humiliation.
The affair.
Rosalie accepted the apology without pretending the damage vanished.
“You made choices.”
“I know.”
“So did he.”
Bianca asked if Rosalie hated her.
“No.”
That surprised both of them.
Rosalie was angry.
But hatred would keep Bianca too central.
She had a divorce to navigate and a company to stabilize.
Bianca was no longer the axis of either.
Before hanging up, Bianca said:
“For what it’s worth, he really did believe he built everything
himself.”
Rosalie looked out her office window.
“I know.”
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That was the deepest problem.
Garrett’s lies to others had begun as a lie he told himself.
