After the conversation he had had with his assistant, he found himself unable to do anything but sink into tangled thoughts. Johari had asked him to trust her, had said she would take care of solving the problem, and that idea alone had him completely on edge.

He had left Chrome Machine very late and hadn’t cared about losing an entire Saturday afternoon locked away in his office. Once home, he felt tempted to call his assistant and bombard her with questions. The urgency to know exactly what J