Chapter Fifteen
Kim Medhurst
Two weeks later
Kim had to work incredibly hard to stop her hand shaking as she signed the contract. Gripping the pen was a challenge, too, given her sweaty palms. She was so excited, so exhilarated she thought she might be sick, right there and then, in a room full of businessmen and lawyers. Part of her was convinced this wasn’t even happening, that she was actually fast asleep and dreaming. But then, if she was dreaming, wouldn’t her brain have skipped over the boring business-y stuff and gone right to the point where the ygrene was connected to the grid for the first time? Dreams rarely make sense, though—and hers were no exception. Well, real or imagined, she had to go along with it.
She printed her name and filled in the date before laying the pen dow
