Camila's POV
The debrief with Petra took eleven minutes.
I know because I watched the clock above her desk the entire time she spoke. Supplier contacts, partnership renewals, the Milano collaboration confirmation, a press request from a fashion journal that wanted a feature on the Vale Group rebrand.
Petra went through each item with the efficiency I paid her for and I nodded at the right moments and said the right things and gave her what she needed to continue operating.
When she left I sat behind my desk and looked at the wall.
The meeting had been two hours ago.
I was still sitting with it.
That was the problem. I didn't sit with things. I processed, I moved, I decided. Sitting with something was what other people did — people who hadn't learned early enough that the moment you
