Chapter 26- Protective Anger
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 morning incident at the glass still sat in her mind with clear edges.
She had already decided how she would handle it.
Alex walked in a minute later and closed the door harder than necessary.
He sat across from her and looked at the sheet without picking it up. His expression was tighter than usual.
“We are not discussing the glass,” he said.
“I did not plan to open with it.”
“You planned to use it.”
Maya kept her hands still on the notebook.
“I planned to make sure it does not happen again. That is different.”
Alex leaned back in the chair. “I moved because the situation required control. Noth
