Chapter 27- Too close
Maya arrived at the conference room three minutes early and left the door open.
She set the recovery sequence on the table and opened her notebook to a clean page.
The argument from the previous session still sat between them unresolved.
She had no intention of reopening it first.
Alex walked in at the exact time and closed the door.
He sat across from her and looked at the sheet without picking it up. The set of his shoulders was tighter than usual.
“Same sequence,” he said.
“No adjustments.”
“The data still supports the longer hold on the left side.”
“I am not doing the adjusted version today.”
Maya kept her hands still on the notebook.
“Then the numbers will show the same lag they showed before.”
“I will manage the lag. You will record what you se
