Quiet Command

~Kaelen~

She walked in at 9:01.

I know because I’d been watching the door since five to nine, which was information about myself I was choosing not to examine too closely.

The boardroom was already full, six of my executives down one side, Raina’s lead architect and two VX engineers down the other, laptops open, coffee cooling in paper cups that my assistant had arranged with the kind of symmetry