Chapter 12
As soon as Witze heard the door to the outer office close, he left the small room off the main one and crossed to where Clarke was standing, staring out of the window. The two security guards had been dismissed; it was just the two of them in the office.
“Why did you tell him about the meeting and that it wasn’t until tomorrow?” Witze stood beside the Chancellor, hands in pockets, and watched with Clarke as Todd Ruger crossed the estate to the employee quarters. “You all but told him how much of a head start they’d have.” Not that Witze disagreed. He liked Todd and didn’t like the fact at all that the man and his slave were being treated this way after they’d brought down a creature that could have ended their entire government. “Now he’s got more than twenty-four hours to get
