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UNDISCLOSED Milwaukee To Chicago
Rowan called Imara on a Wednesday. Which they had established early as their specific communication for things that mattered, texts were for logistics, calls were for everything else.She answered on the third ring which meant she was in the middle of something and had decided to answer anyway which he had learned meant something."I have a site visit in Chicago next Friday," he said. "The West Loop development."A pause. "The Ashford Group project.""Adjacent to it, yes." He held his phone. "I will be in the city for the weekend."Another pause. Shorter this time. "The whole weekend.""Yes."He heard something in her breath that was not quite a response and did not quite silence the specific quality of Imara processing something she had already decided and was taking a moment to confirm."There is a new restaurant in River North," she said finally. "I have been meaning to try it.""Saturday," he said."Saturday," she agreed.He put the phone down and sat in his Milwaukee apartment
UNDISCLOSED London calling
She called him on a Tuesday.Not a message, a call. Which had become, over the past three weeks since she returned to London, their specific communication for things that required more than text could carry.He answered on the second ring."You are at the office," she said. She could hear it in the background the specific ambient sound of a New York corporate floor at four in the afternoon."I am always at the office at four," he said. "You know this.""I know this," she agreed. "I called anyway."He stepped away from whatever he had been doing she heard the sound change, quieter, the specific quality of someone finding a private space. "Tell me.""The Shoreditch project has been approved for the next phase," she said. "Full development. Eighteen months minimum." She paused. "They want me more involved than the consulting arrangement we discussed."He was quiet for a moment. "How much more involved.""Significantly." She paused. "There is a conversation to be had about what that looks
UNDISCLOSED Her Name
Brennan's statement arrived at eight forty seven on Friday morning.Not to Nia directly to the publication's editor in chief, copied to Edmund Reeves and the full board, with a separate copy forwarded to Imara who sent it to Nia at eight forty eight with a message that said simply “Read it.”She read it at her desk with her office door closed and her coffee going cold beside her.It was thorough.Howard Brennan, former legal counsel to the Ashford family, formally acknowledged that the information provided to financial journalist Carter Walsh had been obtained through his prior professional relationship with the family and shared without authorization, instruction or knowledge of any current member of the Ashford Group or its board. He acknowledged that the appointment of Nia Calloway to the position of Senior Partner had been made through proper channels with full board approval and that her compensation arrangement reflected documented portfolio performance. He acknowledged that hi
UNDISCLOSED Woman To Woman
Darian came back at nine thirty.Nia was on the couch when she heard his key in the door Seren was asleep, the apartment was quiet, she had been sitting with her tea going cold beside her and her phone face down on the cushion next to her for the past two hours.He came in and looked at her and she read his face immediately."How did it go," she said.He sat beside her. Loosened his collar. Looked at the ceiling for a moment."She said the right things," he said. "She always says the right things now." He paused. "Brennan's statement is being prepared. She will have it to the publication and the board by nine tomorrow morning." He paused again. "She asked if she could call you."Nia said nothing."I told her it was your decision," he said. "As I always tell her." He looked at her. "She understood."She looked at her cold tea."Did it feel resolved," she said carefully.He was quiet for a long moment."No," he said honestly. "It felt managed. The way things feel when the right words a
UNDISCLOSED The Meeting
Edmund Reeves was already seated when she arrived.Not with the formal arrangement of a disciplinary meeting no folder open on the table, no documents positioned for review, no legal representation present. Just Reeves at the head of the small conference room on the sixteenth floor with two cups of coffee and the expression of a man who had been in corporate governance long enough to know the difference between a problem and a perception and had decided which one this was before he picked up the phone to call her.She sat across from him.He looked at her directly."I want to say something before we discuss anything else," he said. "The appointment was correct. The process was correct. The numbers that supported it were correct." He held her gaze. "I approved that appointment because you earned it. That position was not given to you. It was negotiated by you with terms that reflected an accurate understanding of your value to this firm." He paused. "I want that said clearly before we
UNDISCLOSED The Article
The article went live on a Tuesday morning.Not a gossip site this time a legitimate financial news outlet that covered corporate restructuring and executive appointments with the specific credibility of a publication that fact checked before it printed and therefore carried considerably more weight than the last thing that had been written about her.Nia found it through a Google alert at seven fifty two.She was in the kitchen. Darian had already left early meeting, he had kissed her forehead at six forty five and taken the good croissant which she had let him take because it was Tuesday and Tuesdays were his croissant day by unspoken agreement.Seren was eating breakfast.Gerald was in his window.Everything was ordinary.Then her phone lit up.UNDISCLOSED EXCLUSIVE: Questions Raised Over Ashford Group Senior Partner Appointment Was Calloway's Above-Band Promotion Earned or Given?She read the headline twice.Then she opened the article.It was thorough.Whoever had written it had
UNDISCLOSED What Imara knows
"He took the stairs," Imara said, setting down her fork with the deliberate placement of someone making a point through cutlery. "Yesterday and today. You take the elevator. He takes the stairs. Nia, that man is avoiding the elevator because of you."Nia looked up from her salad. "How do you know he
UNDISCLOSED Professional courtesy
"The Meridian account flagged an anomaly in the Q3 allocation," Cressida said, setting a tablet on the desk in front of him without preamble. "Nothing critical. A rounding discrepancy in the rebalancing formula that their previous management team had been carrying forward for approximately eighteen
UNDISCLOSED Forty-seven seconds
"Mr. Ashford." Pearce's assistant a young woman named Delia who had the permanently brisk energy of someone managing three schedules simultaneously stepped into the hallway outside the conference room and lowered her voice. "The Calloway & West team leads are already in the Meridian Room. They've b
UNDISCLOSED Before she can Breathe
"You're doing the thing," Imara said, dropping into the chair across from Nia's desk and setting down a coffee that was not from the office kitchen.Nia looked up from her screen. "What thing?""The thing where you arrange objects." Imara pointed. "You've moved your stapler three times since I sat
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