The CEO Above My Desk (Mckenzie Shinabery) novel Chapter 181

The CEO Above My Desk

Chapter 181

Leah scrolls silently through more files for another long moment before suddenly stopping again.

This time her expression shifts into confusion. Then disbelief. She opens another folder.

Environmental redevelopment plans. Community housing concepts. Blueprints. Funding breakdowns. Proposed layouts.

Her brows pull together tightly while she scans the documents. “Wait,” she says slowly. “These are real?”

I blink. “What?”

“The environmental housing projects.” She turns the monitor toward me slightly. “These are legitimate?”

I stare at her for a second before nodding. “Yes.”

Leah looks genuinely stunned now. “There are entire project proposals in here.”

“There’s also a website.”

Both Leah and Camille look at me. I reach forward slightly, typing quickly into the browser before pulling up the public project page Rowan’s development team launched months ago.

Articles, Statements. Interviews. Community outreach proposals. Architectural renderings. Funding plans. Employment initiative outlines.

Leah stares at the screen silently.

“He’s been talking publicly about this for months,” I say quietly. “The tiny environmental housing structures. Job placement programs Rehabilitation support. Trade apprenticeships.”

Camille leans slightly toward the monitor. “He wanted the September job fair tied into the housing rollout.”

Leah slowly scrolls through the page. “He was serious,” she whispers.

“Yes.”

The sadness in my chest suddenly aches harder. Because nobody sees this side of Rowan. Nobody. They see the billionaire. The CEO. The cold man in expensive suits. Not the person quietly trying to rebuild parts of the city everyone else abandoned.

Leah scrolls further through the proposal documents. Then suddenly frowns.

“Wait.” Her eyes narrow slightly. “Why didn’t this move forward?”

I laugh softly under my breath. Not because it’s funny. Because I’m angry.

“Because Hargrove buried the permit.”

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Leah’s eyes snap toward me immediately. “What?”

“She delayed zoning approvals.” My voice hardens slightly. “Environmental clearance reviews. Construction authorization.” I cross my arms tightly. “Every time Rowan got close, another issue magically appeared.”

Leah slowly looks back toward the screen. Then toward the corruption emails again. And suddenly I can see it click for her completely.

Hargrove wasn’t trying to protect the city. She was blocking the person trying to help it.

Leah leans back slowly in her chair, staring at the project plans still pulled up on her monitor while the television in the corner quietly drones on about political tensions and the explosion downtown.

Then she laughs once under her breath. Not humor. Disbelief.

“She buried this?” she asks quietly.

“Yes.”

Leah shakes her head slowly, almost like she’s angry at herself now too. “Jesus Christ.”

Camille watches her carefully from the chair near the wall while rubbing absently at her stomach again.

Leah suddenly straightens in her chair. And just like that… The journalist takes over.

I can physically see the shift happen. The exhaustion disappears. The fear sharpens. Her eyes focus.

“Oh, I’m going to tear this bitch apart.” The words come out low and furious.

Leah immediately starts typing something quickly into her computer before looking back at me.

“First things first,” she says sharply. “Damage control.”

I frown slightly. “What?”

“Rowan.”

My brows pull together instantly.

Leah gestures toward the project plans on the screen. “Your husband’s company is taking public hits right now because of the explosion and the investigation.” Her jaw tightens. “But if these plans are real?”

“They are.”

“Then I need an interview with him immediately.”

I blink. “You want to interview Rowan?”

“Yes.”

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That almost makes me laugh. Because Rowan hates interviews. Actually hates them.

“He’s going to love that,” Camille mutters dryly.

Leah ignores her completely, already thinking three steps ahead now. “I need him talking publicly about these projects,” she continues. “The housing plans. The environmental redevelopment. The employment initiatives.”

She points sharply at the screen. “People need to see where his money is actually going before this corruption story breaks.”

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