"I'm suggesting you designate someone," Lucas said. "Someone with operational authority, someone who knows the company the way you know it, someone who can sit across from Enzo Vitale in a board meeting and not be maneuvered." He held her gaze. "Someone he's not expecting.""You," Jayda said."If you want it to be me," Lucas said simply. "I'm not asking for it. I'm offering it if it's useful. But it has to be documented, Jayda, it has to be legally sound, it has to be something that can't be challenged or reinterpreted when the time comes."The time comes.Even Lucas, who knew everything, still softened the language when he got close enough to the center of it."I'll talk to the lawyers," she said."This week," Lucas said. "Not when you get around to it. This week.""This week," she agreed.He nodded, apparently satisfied, though she could see behind the satisfaction the undercurrent of something that wasn't satisfaction at all — the grief he carried quietly, the way he'd been carryin
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