Riven had not planned to stay.
He had come to the building for a separate matter, a quarterly review with Gerald about a property acquisition that ran through one of the company's smaller subsidiary arms. Gerald had asked him to wait in the anteroom adjacent to the boardroom while the Harken brief finished, and Riven had said of course and had settled into the chair and had looked at his phone for approximately ninety seconds before he stood up.
The anteroom had a glass panel that looked out into the corridor and from the right position, standing rather than sitting, you could see through the inner window of the boardroom to the table inside. Riven had discovered this years ago during a period of the company's history when knowing what was being said in rooms he was not invited into had
