The meeting lasted three hours.
Selene would write about it in detail later, in the green notebook, the full account of every minute of it from the moment she walked into the meeting room on Damien's left to the moment Cain Voss stood and offered his hand across the table with the scheduled smile and the pale eyes doing their assessment behind it.
She would write about Dorian Voss and his precise procedural manner that was the surface presentation of a man whose actual function in the room was observation rather than negotiation. She would write about the way Cain had looked at her when she came in and the specific quality of his recalibration when she sat at the table as an equal participant rather than an attendant presence. She would write about the moment halfway through the meeting
