Chapter 253

• CLOE POV
• I soaked it all in, everything he told me. Went over the slides again and again until they made sense. I wanted to please him, wanted to get it right.
• Soren hung out with us, playing retro arcade games on his tablet while we crunched sales statistics. His hip was pressed to mine, the tickle of his beard against my shoulder as Max and I talked work. He didn’t hurry us, or “try to interject, just kept himself amused in his own little bubble while we worked away right next to him.