Kane came in from the hallway and stood beside her in the nursery doorway and looked at Damian with the measured, unreadable expression he reserved for decisions he had already made but not yet announced.
"There's a junior analyst position open in the Wilder Dynamics research division," he said. "Entry level. Reports to a team leader who has no idea who you are and will not be told. Standard salary, standard hours, standard everything. You use your middle name on the paperwork." He paused. "And you have no contact with Lila in a professional context. The Saturday visits stay exactly as they are. Those two things don't overlap."
Damian looked at him. Not with pride — there was no room for pride in what Damian was working with right now. "Agreed," he said.
"I need to hear that you underst
