Calculated Moves

Valentin’s POV

I flipped through the pages, scanning the highlights and ignoring what I now realized was Svetlana’s halfhearted attempt to figure out the nature of my relationship with Vivianna. Svetlana spoke on, detailing metrics, reach, perception polls. Her tone was cool, precise. It always had been one of the reasons I’d kept her around professionally as long as I had. Because besides being