The sunlight had yet to fully penetrate the glass windows of the Lumora Tech building when Victoria stepped into the main lobby. Usually, this early in the morning, there was only the sound of formal footsteps and the occasional weary laugh from newly arrived employees. But this morning... something was different.
The normally quiet atmosphere was now claustrophobic. Some people in formal attire, some carrying cameras, stood in front of the reception desk. Their voices whispered rapidly, their hands pointed toward the elevator, and their faces suggested something more than fatigue. Anxiety. Suppressed panic.
It seemed like just last night, they breathed a sigh of relief after a crisis with a client, but now there was another crisis. It was as if they couldn't get a day's rest. Still, Vic
