The next morning, I was at Lane Group right on time.
Seven or eight people were already seated in the top-floor conference room.
Lucas stood at the projector screen. He spotted me and raised a hand. "We're all here. Let's start."
I'd barely sat down before he pulled up an org chart. "Head of the new division, Serena Shaw. All project decisions go through her."
Eyes moved around the room. Curiosity in some, assessment in others. Nobody looked dismissive.
Lucas continued. "I've looked at her previous work. The ability's there. The rest, you can verify with results."
Not exactly a warm welcome. But it was clean. No hollow praise, no unnecessary testing. Everything would speak for itself.
I stood and opened the revised roadmap I'd prepared.
"The data collection methods in the original
