CHAPTER FORTY NINE

Bree's morning was already ruined with her visit to her father, but it had taken Bernett's hard voice calling her to his office to make it considerably worse.

His face had been hard as rock and his voice had been even worse.

And his words had cut deep when he'd called her a whore, throwing herself cheap to score points in his firm.

The filth dripping from his lips had been foreign to her ears as she had no idea what he'd been talking about.

She'd had no knowledge of what Nathan Stone looked like in the flesh until this morning, and yet he made his accusations with no remorse or respect to her womanhood.

He'd accused her of doing despicable things to worm her way into Nathan Stone's favor and disregarding the rules of the firm because of the man's influence.

It had taken everything in her to keep mute and listen to him insult her very birth and existence.

She'd taken it all because he was the boss and she needed the money he pays at th