Aria’s POV
"Okay, so we just need to place our hands here simultaneously?" I stared at the biometric scanner as if it might bite me.
"That's what the instructions say." Damien squinted at the tablet Gregory Thornfield's tech team had left behind, his finger scrolling through pages of dense technical jargon. "Both palms flat on the surface for ten seconds while maintaining eye contact with the retinal scanner."
"That's physically impossible. The retinal scanner is mounted on the wall six feet away."
"Then one of us scans while the other does palms?"
"It says simultaneously, Damien!"
"Well, I don't know what else to do, Aria! I didn't design this sadistic system!"
It was nine PM, and we'd been at this for three hours already. THREE. HOURS. Lily had finally crashed around seven, exhaus
