Chapter 132: Don't Sleep
Liora Voss let her attention drift slowly away from the laptop.
It was not as if she had nothing to do. In practice, she controlled dozens of entertainment venues, and the revenue from a single nightclub on a good night could make an ordinary person lose all sense of scale. Serena Blackwood was not the foundation of her life, no matter how badly Serena seemed to enjoy acting as if the world rearranged itself around her.
Without Serena, Liora would still live very well.
Liora was good at reading people, better at using them, and best at knowing when to leave the actual labor in someone else's hands. That was why she could afford to treat most daily operations as background noise. Even so, certain decisions still had to come from her. Certain accounts needed her eye, certain conflicts needed her signature, and certain people were expensive enough that ignoring them became its own form of waste.
Tonight, she was dealing with one of those matters.
