Chapter 29:Both Desperately Holding the Line
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 way her focus had drifted in the last session still irritated her.
She had already decided she would give it no more room.
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 rigid.
“Same sequence,” he said. “No adjustments. No extra conversation.”
“That has always been the structure.”
“I am making sure it stays that way.”
He started the first interval.
Maya watched the form and the timing with deliberate focus.
The resets were clean. She recorded the numbers wit
