Chapter 14: Ember

He didn't touch me for a full thirty seconds. He just stood there behind that desk with his hands flat on it, looking at me like a man checking whether he'd finally lost his mind. "You're supposed to be in Rome," he said. "I came back in March." "I know," he said. "I know exactly when you came back. I've known every day where you were for four years and I never once—" He stopped. "Ember. Say what you came to say. Please. I've got a nine-figure merger in that room and I genuinely do not...