Chapter 36: Another Big Announcement

“Where’s Stevia?” I asked as I returned to the waiting room.

“Oh, she’s already gone in,” Liam replied. “You know what it’s like with the media. They wanted her ahead of time.”

No. I didn’t know what it was like with the media. This was all new to me.

I heard a lot of noise, then, from outside the room. Applause, the click of cameras, people shouting: “Stevia! This way! Look over here!”

And I realized…

This was no small launch.

Liam had glossed over it, claiming it was ‘simple and intimate’. But I should have known better.

The HS Group had a lot of financial power, so there were likely a ton of business bigwigs out there. Then add in Stevia Sinclair, who’s a real media draw. And of course, the elusive Liam Stonewood, president of HS. Apparently Liam rarely appeared in public, at least, that’s what I’d been told.

Mix them all together and voila! You have a conference room packed with over a thousand people.

“Over a thousand?” I blinked, frozen in spot. Liam had just told me the head co