On Tuesday morning, Sera sent Ada a revised events calendar.
Two declines. The Harwick Foundation dinner on Thursday, which she had already confirmed, and the industry reception the following week she had planned to attend with Dante. Both events Roman was likely to be at. Both were removed from her schedule without explanation, replaced with internal meetings that genuinely needed to happen and would have been scheduled eventually anyway.
She told herself this was an efficient use of time. It was also distanced. Both things were true, and she chose not to examine which one came first.
By Wednesday, she had restructured the Aldric intelligence channel. Everything relevant to Ashford Global would move through Dante and a third-party lawyer named Pryce, who had no personal connection to a
