Chapter 14
The office was much smaller than Luis expected, less than half the size of the room they’d just walked through. There was barely space for a sleek, black desk, several shelves stuffed full of photo-screens and printed books, and a few leather chairs.
The man standing behind the desk was medium height, unlike his towering son or petite daughter. Mr. Essena had a slender comm unit in his hand, and a spherical holo-reader, much larger than the one Luis carried, floated above the desk. Luis caught a glimpse of multiple moving documents, each full of charts and numbers, before Mr. Essena killed the display.
“Ben! What a nice surprise,” The two men hugged, thumping each other on the back and smiling. “Taking a break to visit your old dad in the middle of the day.”
“I know, I know.
