Xesha's POV I began explaining everything I’d learned from RARE, then in the business market, how likely RARE’s venture was to succeed in entering the global market and receive a favorable valuation according to professional entrepreneurs like Sebastian. He listened to me without interrupting, paying attention to every detail I explained, backed by the data I’d prepared several days earlier. Sebastian could have interrupted and cut me off mid-sentence, just as Jasper did every time I chimed in during business discussions. But he didn’t do that. He was truly a professional, and though I didn’t know his purpose in doing all this—or his reason for letting me influence the decisions he made—he let me speak until I was finished and even moved only after I’d finished my final sente

