Chapter 507

The council chamber had once been the Ashbourne family's dining hall. Now it held a long oak table, twelve chairs, and a wall of screens that flickered with data from three continents. Lenora arrived early, as she always did, and found Harold already there, hunched over his laptop with the look of a man who hadn't slept.

"You've been here all night," she said.

"Since two." He didn't look up. "I to