The truth was that the first person Mike had contacted was Emma Dreeme since he knew she had contacts which would help him far better than his own. He went to the Kodam office and asked for her office.
Since they did not know who Mike truly was, they led him to Emma's office and asked him to wait. He had only met her once at the party and that, too, briefly. They had made small talk about the Verizon-Kodam project and that was it.
Emma had not shown a lot of interest in his personal life and he had not pushed it, either. So after a brief hello, they had parted ways.
"Mike!" She exclaimed, genuinely shocked to see him in her office.
From what she knew, Mike was smart and knew business as well as anyone could have. He was one of the reasons Verizon was a success. But he was als
