~Julian~
The event was Zane's idea. He had argued, with the particular persistence he reserved for things he was right about, that the Invisible Shield needed a launch. Not a press release. Not a technical briefing distributed to industry contacts. An actual event room, lighting, an open bar, journalists who wrote for publications that mattered, and both companies standing in the same space presenting a unified front.
I had agreed because the business case was sound. Not for any other reason. Definitely not because it meant an evening in the same room as Katia Kensington, which was information I was not sharing with Zane under any circumstances.
The venue was a private space in Midtown, all glass and clean lines and the kind of deliberate minimalism that costs more than decoration would
