The Price of Power

Vera

At exactly 8:00 a.m., the heavy double doors of the penthouse suite swung open with a resounding, authoritative thud. I jumped slightly, my fingers instinctively tightening around the ceramic warmth of my coffee mug. The woman listed in Camille's contacts simply as 'Chloe' did not wait for an invitation. She arrived like a calculated hurricane, aggressively rolling in an absolute arsenal of