"How confident are you."
"The licence is clean. The work history at this hospital is exceptional. Morrison is already on record supporting you." She paused. "The article asked questions. It didn't provide grounds for disciplinary action because there aren't any." She held Aria's gaze. "What it did do is create noise. And noise is harder to fight than evidence."
"I know," Aria said. "Which is why I need to control the narrative before Victoria does it for me."
Catherine looked at her.
"Victoria Ashford," Aria said. "She's behind the article. We know it, we can't prove it yet, but she's behind it." She paused. "She's not done. This is the first move not the whole game. She's going to keep building until there's enough noise that the board has to act regardless of what the evidence says."
"What are you proposing."
