Dayo sat behind his desk with the latest report open in front of him, but he had stopped reading it several minutes ago.
The words were still there, the figures were still clear, and Felix was already on his way to give him another update. None of it held his attention.
His mind had moved somewhere else.
He thought about Luna.
Then Jennifer.
The image of his daughter from the previous morning came back to him, especially the way she had reached for him when he finally came home. He had been away too much lately. Even when he was physically around, his attention was usually somewhere else, tied to a phone call, a meeting, a report, or something that could not wait.
A knock sounded at the door.
Felix entered with a tablet in his hand. "Dayo, I have an update on the—"
"Hold on."
Felix stopped.
Dayo looked up from the desk. "Just hold on to it for now."
Felix stared at him for a moment. "Hold on to what?"
"The update."
