needed“Is this what it all comes down to?” she asked him when he didn’t answer. “I’m in your way, so you’re here to make me an offer? To ask me what my price is? To see what kind of – mutually beneficial arrangement – we can come to?”
mutually beneficial arrangement – Grainger’s gaze didn’t wander. He opened his palms towards her again. “There’s room for everyone,” he told her.
Victoria let her exasperation show. She couldn’t help it. She scoffed loudly enough that the sound bounced off the room’s partitions. She turned away from him and faced the wall; it was decorated with a selection of framed photographs showing the Town Hall in yesteryears. She allowed her eyes to travel over the faces of the crowd captured in one of the scenes; dozens upon dozens of people, milling about in the Cen
