Chapter Two Phoenix The feeling was back again, those butterflies in the stomach that betrayed that Alexa was on her way at last. New York to Phoenix in just four hours by Hyperloop. Sitting in the hurtling pod with eleven others she relaxed and watched a couple of films, all the while shivering in anticipation and trying to relax. Miss Maeve! Alexa reviewed the interview in her head again and again, picturing that hidden office, the almost fireside-chat and wondered who else was on their way… Alone on an adventure, it seemed so romantic, but she half wished that she had been able to get away in a month’s time when Kai was making her regular visit. It would have been good to go with a friend. ‘Damn trial,’ she thought. It couldn’t be avoided, defender for Harry Gresham in a fraud tri

