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Chapter 16

Auteur: A. Leilani
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Chapter 16

Klaus's expression didn't change, but something in his posture relaxed almost as he seemed a bit relieved that she had taken the bait. She did not know if that was a good thing yet.

"Good. Conference Room B is three doors down on the left. I'll see you there in thirty minutes."

He turned and walked out, leaving Ambelyn alone with the file and a mounting sense of either opportunity or disaster—she wasn't sure which.

She found an empty office and closed the door, spreading the contents of the file across the desk, trying to arrange it in a way that she would tackle it one by one, absolving the important things and discarding the irrelevant ones.

Then she dove in, her mind shifting into the focused mode she remembered from college, when she'd had to absorb massive amounts of information quickly for presentations and exams.

The AI division was impressive—cutting-edge technology for predictive business analytics, with applications across multiple industries. The financial proje
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