Chapter Fourteen
Consolidations
Dense clouds roiled overhead but the temperature was high and the air thick with rising humidity. Nicholas’s shirt was already stuck to his back as he surveyed the women assembled before him in the ring. It was going to be a long day.
“As you’re probably already aware, Lauren will not be participating in the upcoming presentation. This means that everything we’re doing must be reconfigured for a team of seven participants.”
He scanned the faces before him but not one expression changed one iota.
“From today on, Meris will take point. Does anyone have a problem with that?”
Meris started to open her mouth.
“Besides you,” Nicholas prohibited and Meris’s mouth shut. “Anyone else? Tell me now, because we have precious little time for any more petty rivalri
