In the New York morning, traffic crawls along the main arteries of Manhattan, presenting a frantic and vibrant urban scene.
Chloe was driving her red BMW X1, her phone mounted on the dashboard, with Google Maps active. A Joe Rogan podcast was playing, "So I was talking to this guy about..."
Liam Thorne sat in the back seat. He knew better than to sit in the front passenger seat of a professional acquaintance's car.
Upon receiving Anne’s w******p request, Liam immediately switched his phone to "Do Not Disturb" and began to consider his next move.
In his twenty-seven years of life, he had never tried to negotiate a high-stakes corporate contract, especially one that had already been dead on arrival.
He was just a junior graphic designer.
However, he was certain that he could pull it of
