Elena's POV
"Wait, look at this."
Damien leaned forward, his finger tracing a line in one of the contracts spread across my desk.
We'd been at this for maybe twenty minutes now, sitting across from each other in silence, searching for a solution. Anything.
The only sounds were the soft rustle of paper and the low hum of the air conditioner overhead. The office felt completely cut off from the world outside, just us and these endless documents between us.
"What?" I asked, rubbing my eyes, trying to force the words on the page to stop blurring together.
"Catherine's not trying to take direct control," he said slowly, like he was figuring it out as he spoke. "Look at the wording here, she's not positioning herself as the decision maker."
Something in his tone made me sit up straighte
