LIAM’S CHAIR AT THE conference table squeaks obnoxiously every time he moves, so he’s trying to sit as still as possible. Not moving is hard for Liam in the best of circumstances. Right now he feels as antsy in a work meeting as he ever has.
They’re in a room at the production company that’s taking on Scism. Sitting around the table, in addition to Liam, is Minette, a junior marketing executive, and someone from finance. Jackson is walking back and forth near head of the table, pitching his latest concept for the show.
Liam twists the ring on his right hand, the ring he found in a metronome in Victor’s house the year Victor died. It’s a story that doesn’t make sense to hardly anyone when he tells it, so he mostly doesn’t. That he has the ring, a physical object to remind him that Victor
