It was like being hit square in the face with a sledgehammer.
For a moment, Zoe Rhodes's breath caught in her throat.
She remembered Zane Hawthorne telling her he wasn't in contact with Ethan Rhodes...
She didn't think Zane would lie to her.
But Julian Bennett, on the other end of the line, had no reason to lie to her either.
She remained calm. "Are you sure?"
Her tone suddenly turned serious. Julian Bennett, who was just walking out of the security checkpoint, thought for a moment before replying, "It's just what I heard."
He could be certain about all the messy business between Nathan Bennett and Ethan Rhodes, since he'd witnessed it firsthand. But as for Zane Hawthorne and Ethan Rhodes, everything he knew came from his father.
His father liked to gossip about this and that over tea or after dinner when he had nothing else to do. Julian wasn't interested in the world of business, so he'd never dug deeper, just treating it as idle chatter.
