Darien did not speak for a few seconds.
Then his voice came back sharper than before.
"Foreign trip?" he asked. "What foreign trip?"
Adam leaned back in the chair and looked at the copied phone in his hand. Darien's panic was expected. Land was something Darien could understand after a few numbers.
But the foreign trip was different.
"A man will go abroad as your company's representative," Adam said.
"My company's representative?" Darien repeated.
"Yes."
"For what?"
"To contact an outside company."
Darien made a small sound, as if he had almost laughed but stopped himself halfway. "You are saying that like I have offices in five countries. I do not. We are barely standing properly here."
"I know."
"Then why are we talking about foreign companies?"
"Because this is not expansion," Adam said. "It is a mission for my organization."
Darien went quiet again.
