Beyond Probability

KAELEN'S POV

5:47 AM.

He'd been awake since four. He ran at four-thirty the way he always did — the building's private gym, forty minutes, the particular quality of physical effort that cleared the night's accumulated thinking without replacing it with anything specific. By five-thirty he was back upstairs, showered, coffee made, the penthouse in its pre-dawn state of being the truest version of i