the calendar, it had promised to be long but boring. In retrospect, Zoey should have known that days such as these were where your real problems hid, so they could jump out and punch you in the gut. Zoey’s people were all in the conference room cobbling together a new security protocol with Wu, since the day thus far had been a string of spectacular failures on that front. She had wanted no part of that meeting, not just because she was totally uninterested in hearing Will and Wu take turns deflecting blame, but because the whole thing just drove home how, based purely on allocation of assets,
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