But the rumors only grew. Those people started showing up at her classroom door to hurl insults to her face.
Not a single classmate spoke up for her. Even her teachers believed the accusations and wanted to suspend her pending an investigation.
It was Bryce who stepped forward.
He didn't just vouch for her. He went out of his way to obtain a recording of the very people who had set her up.
In that moment, Bryce Delgado had been nothing short of a god in her eyes.
And now he was standing with the people smearing her name, helping them do it.
Worse, he knew she'd been framed, and he was using the frame-up as his excuse to hand everything she'd built to the woman who had orchestrated it.
Rosamond's breathing turned ragged. She felt as though the ground had been pulled from beneath her, her body swaying, barely upright. She dug her nails into her palms hard enough to leave marks, forcing herself not to show a shred of weakness in front of Olympia.
She was about to argue her case when her phone rang. It was the managing partner.
"Rosamond, what the hell did you do?!"
"Pinnacle Corp's confidential files have been leaked. All of them. Do you have any idea what this is going to do to the case?"