CHAPTER EIGHT
TUESDAY, AUGUST 1, 2023 8:56am
Four Years Ago
The numbers flashed past as the car left the lobby and began to rise. Adam never enjoyed this ride. At the tenth floor the counter froze while the elevator slipped into express mode and shot him higher, past the insignificant floors between the commercial levels and the board room. It wouldn’t stop again until 63, but it was hell bent on getting there fast. Adam listened to the quiet sounds bleeding through the isolated car, the whoosh of air being displaced in the shaft, the distant hum of electric motors far away. They were joined by the throbbing of his heart. It took only 30 seconds to move from the tenth floor to the sixty-third. The speed impressed Adam even if he hated the ride and what awaited him at the end.
Today his
