Chapter 28 : Something Different
Maya arrived at the conference room on time and set the recovery sequence on the table.
She left the door open and opened her notebook to a clean page.
The almost-moment from the previous session still sat in the back of her mind.
She had already decided she would not be the one to reference it.
Alex walked in a minute later and closed the door.
He sat across from her and looked at the sheet without picking it up.
The set of his shoulders carried the same controlled tension it always did after a hard exchange.
“Same sequence,” he said. “No commentary about the last session.”
“I had no plans to reopen it.”
“Good.”
He started the first interval. Maya watched the form and the timing the way she always did.
The resets were cleaner than the week
