She had not been looking for the gym and she wanted that to be clear, at least in her own accounting of the morning, which was the only accounting that ultimately mattered.
She had come in early on a Tuesday, six forty-five early, because she had a significant stack of preparation work for the Thursday board meeting and she wanted clear time before the day's competing demands began. She had come in through the lower entrance because the main lobby had a cleaning crew working the marble and they had redirected foot traffic through the side door on the lower level.
The lower level had corridors she had navigated only twice before. She had the building's full layout in her memory with the thoroughness she brought to things she considered professionally necessary, but theoretical knowledge o
