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"I'll organize the revised contracts before Legal requests them," I said. "Tonight, so they have them first thing tomorrow."
"Alright," he said.
"And I'll send the corrected figures to Finance with an explanation of the amendment. They'll need to update their models."
He nodded. He was looking at something on his phone — the specific distracted attention of someone processing the meeting in the background while their eyes dealt with the next thing.
"You caught something everyone else missed," he said. Without looking up from the phone.
"We caught it," I said.
He looked up at that. He held my gaze for a second without responding.
Then he looked back at the phone.
We reached his office.
I stepped inside ahead of him — the choreography of someone whose role required being
