Chapter 46 The Long Game

***Hazel***

The conference room feels too cold.

Not temperature-wise—emotionally.

The table is long, polished, and deliberately intimidating. Dark wood. Black leather chairs. A skyline view meant to remind everyone who holds the power here.

Five men. One woman—me.

They’re already talking when I walk in, voices overlapping, impatience thick in the air. The moment I take my seat at the head of the t