Off Limits
"You just liquidated a three-generation corporate empire to protect a girl you've known for less than a year, and you're currently worrying about a fifteen percent valuation variance on a bankrupt holding group?"
"The data... must remain consistent," I whispered, my eyes closing as the darkness finally broke through my defensive perimeters, dragging my consciousness down into a silent, zero-byte vacuum.
POV: Phoebe
The smell of sterile linen, rubbing alcohol, and cold, mechanical air conditioning was the first thing that registered when the elevator doors opened on the penthouse floor of the Swedish Medical Center.