The next four days passed with a relatively calm rhythm, like a thin breath of pause in the middle of the corporate storm looming over New York.
Garrick Valentino was in Washington D.C. to secure several prosecution officials and senior senators regarding Dawson Enterprises' tax evasion trial. Garrick's sudden departure out of town made the corridors of Valen Group feel slightly emptier, providing space for Valera to focus all her energy on the Brooklyn project audit files that were increasingly stacking up.
At Columbia Law School, Clarissa was also occupied by a pile of criminal law assignments and midterm exam preparations. A packed lecture schedule and endless group discussions succeeded in diverting Clarissa's attention from the memory of Arthur Dawson's hysteria in the campus garden
