Mrs. Whitmore hit the lobby like a storm nobody had seen coming. She almost never used the front entrance — her usual route was by helicopter, straight to the rooftop pad — so when she came through the revolving doors on foot, hair coming loose from its pins, nobody clocked her right away. For one full second, she was just another stranger crossing the marble."Hey." Her voice cut through the noise anyway. Something in it carried.The receptionist, Ruth, looked up and recognized Margaret first — Margaret, who most of the staff had actually met, unlike the woman she worked for, whose face lived on magazine covers and quarterly reports and almost nowhere else.Ruth shot to her feet, practically glowing with the kind of excitement reserved for celebrity sightings. "Ms. Margaret—"Margaret's expression didn't return the warmth. If anything, it hardened.Then Ruth's eyes slid to the woman standing beside her, and every trace of color drained out of her face in real time."Mrs. Whitmore — yo
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