Vanessa's POV
She slipped into a heavy silk robe and tied it up with one final, swift knot. Her bare feet made no noise on the cool marble as she went towards the nightstand, her mind already racing ahead to other matters. It was…this was just one of a number of physical tasks she had to do before she could get on with more interesting tasks.
But then this steady annoying buzzing began from a tablet computer that was resting on a bedside table near a lamp.
She took a deep breath, let a small sigh of pure annoyance escape, and grabbed it up.
The screen of the computer came on, lighting up her face with its cold blue light. In an instant, her face, which had been just a moment before a mask of winning coolness, hardened into a stone mask. Her jaw clamped shut.
Shown on the screen of her
