Get Rid Of The Baby

Kieran ignored the coffee proffered to him by Rainey’s assistant. After he finished, the room fell into pin-drop silence. Representatives from Candour exchanged meaningful looks with each other. They reached a tacit understanding. I sensed what they were about to do. After all, they knew which side their bread was buttered on. Jay Hendrix, who sided with Rainey at the last meeting and voted me out of the company, was the first to stab her in the back. ‘Rainey, come on. Amiyah’s an old hand. We’d be happy to have her back.’ Another manager concurred. ‘Mr Brennan Finnegan built the company, after all. It’s only appropriate to have his daughter continue to work here.’ ‘Right. You and Amiyah are family. I’m sure you can work things out between the two of you.’ ‘We’ve done so much work for this project. It’ll be a shame to let it all go to waste just because of…you know.’ They didn’t give Rainey a chance to object. For 200 million dollars, they’d be prepared to sell their firstborn, let alo