It started over the Kellner renewal and it was not, at its core, about the Kellner renewal.
Ava had reviewed the terms during her second week and had flagged three clauses that she considered disadvantageous relative to current market standards. She had prepared a comparative analysis with supporting data and had left it on his desk with a note recommending renegotiation before the Friday signing. She had been thorough and she had been accurate and she had been reasonable in her recommendation, and she had meant all three of those things genuinely.
He had read it and proceeded with the original terms without discussion.
She found out from Gerald on Thursday afternoon and she spent twenty minutes with the comparative analysis on her screen and her own thinking, and then she knocked on hi
