The announcement came through at 10:04 a.m.
Neva read it once. Set her phone face-down on the desk. Picked up her coffee. The coffee was cold. She drank it anyway.
Then she walked out of her office and into the main room.
Marcus saw her face first. He was the quickest that way — three years in supernatural corporate security had trained him to read a room before a door finished opening. He looked at her. She nodded once.
He stood up so fast his chair rolled into the wall behind him.
"We got it?"
"We got it."
The sound that followed was not professional. Neva had not expected it to be. Dani grabbed Marcus by the arm. Joel said something loud enough to carry through the glass partition. Rhen, who communicated primarily in silence and precise documentation, pumped one fist once — contr
