The main boardroom had a black marble table and windows running the length of one wall. I watched Julian and Chloe on the security feed from the room next door. Julian paced from the table to the windows. Chloe stayed in her chair and kept turning a diamond ring around her finger. Maya carried in a tray of water. Three months earlier, she had left her dead-end job to join A.W. Capital. Her salary now ran to six figures. "Can we just see the CEO now?" Julian snapped at her. "Some of us don't have all day." Maya set down the glasses. "Ms. Woods will be with you shortly." I left them there for five more minutes, then opened the glass door. They both looked up. Chloe's hand stopped on her ring. "You?" Julian looked past me toward the empty doorway. "What is this? Where's the CEO?" I to

