EDMUMD’S POV
The call came at 2:47 p.m.
Robert Calloway’s voice was the same as it always was, controlled, professional, the specific register of a man who was delivering difficult information without performing difficulty. “I have Rose Benson in my office,” he said. “She has just attempted to position herself as your strategic confidante and to leverage that position to establish her value to your partners.”
I set down the document I had been holding.
“What did she say?” I asked.
“It doesn’t matter precisely what she said,” Robert said. “What matters is that she has created external visibility around your internal situation in a way that now requires your partners to take positions they were not ready to take.
She has made it clear that there is strategic activity happening inside
