Chapter 8 - Garrett Blames Rosalie For His Dependence
Garrett requested a private meeting.
Rosalie agreed with lawyers nearby.
“You made me dependent on you.”
She stared at him.
“I offered financing. You signed the loans.”
“You hid behind shell companies.”
“Investment vehicles. Disclosed to your counsel.”
“Not to me.”
“You had every document.”
Garrett slammed his hand on the table.
“You knew I would never accept money from your family.”
There it was.
Pride.
Rosalie had known.
That was why she arranged transactions at arm’s length.
She told herself the structure respected his independence.
Now she admitted the uncomfortable truth.
“I should have told you more directly.”
Garrett looked triumphant.
Then she continued:
“But my mistake doesn’t turn your signatures into mine.”
His expression changed.
He had approved leverage.
He had expanded.
He had ignored warnings.
Rosalie’s hidden support distorted his understanding of risk.
It did not erase his agency.
Then she asked about Bianca.
Garrett admitted the affair had been physical for eight months.
He had planned to divorce Rosalie after securing the IPO.
“Why before the IPO?”
“Because your stake complicated the story.”
“What story?”
“That West was founder-led.”
Rosalie almost admired the honesty.
Her ownership contradicted the mythology Garrett wanted to sell
investors.
He wanted the market to see a self-made founder with clear control.
Rosalie’s thirty percent represented a fact he hated.
He had never built West alone.
The divorce and dilution were not only about Bianca.
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They were about rewriting the cap table to match the legend Garrett
wanted investors to buy.
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