"I'm outside your building," Rowan said. "I have Seren. Childcare fell through and I have a site meeting in forty minutes and I didn't know where else to go."
Nia was already on her feet. "How far are you?"
"We're at the entrance now."
She looked through her office glass wall at the floor. Darian's temporary office was four doors down on the left. The door was closed. Lights on. Jacket visible on the back of his chair.
Somewhere on the floor.
"Stay at reception," she said. "Don't come through the main floor. I'm coming to you right now."
She hung up and moved.
Seren was wearing her yellow raincoat and had Mr. Roof tucked under one arm and the alert focused energy of a child encountering a new environment and filing everything about it away for future reference.
"Mama's office!" she
