I waited exactly four minutes.Then I walked to the door and pushed it open.Julian was standing behind his desk, both hands flat on the surface, leaning forward. Ethan stood on the other side, arms loose at his sides. Neither of them was speaking when I walked in, which meant they had either just finished or just stopped.“I told you to stay in the corridor,” Julian said, without looking up.“I know,” I said, and closed the door behind me.He looked up then. The expression on his face was the one I had started to recognize as his most dangerous, not the open anger, not the cold calculation, but the very controlled version that sat directly on top of something much larger that he was actively choosing not to release.“This is a private conversation,” he said.“It is a conversation about me,” I said. “So I am going to be here for it.”Ethan glanced at me briefly. There was something in his expression that shows he did not quite approve but he didn’t say anything.Julian straightened up
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