AthenaThe restaurant was the kind of place where the lighting was deliberately soft and the menus had no prices. The staff moved quietly between tables like they had been trained never to exist too visibly. Stellan had chosen a table by the window overlooking the city, and I sat across from him trying to remember the last time someone had taken me to lunch that was not a business meeting.I could not remember.That said something.“The Meridian restructuring proposal,” Stellan said as he set his glass down. “You turned that around in forty eight hours.”“The framework was already there. It just needed someone to see it properly.”“Three senior analysts looked at it before you.” He held my gaze. “None of them saw what you saw.”Something warm moved through my chest that I refused to examine too closely.“Gerald Osei called me this morning,” he continued. “He said, and I quote, whoever put together the Meridian brief needs to be kept very far away from Callum’s department bef
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