Lena showed up at Walker Corporation at 9am with two coffees and absolutely no authorization to be there.
This was not unusual for Lena.
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The security desk called Marcus.
Marcus let her in.
He had put her on the approved list three weeks ago without being asked, because he was thorough and because Damian had mentioned once, in passing, that she sometimes showed up without warning, and Marcus had decided it was easier to have a standing protocol than to field the call every time.
She took the elevator to the thirty-eighth floor.
Found Damian in the kitchen.
The kitchen was small.
It had the specific energy, she would later tell Remi, of every kitchen she and Damian had ever argued in.
Good energy.
Real energy.
She handed him the coffee.
He took it.
She looked at him.
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He looked exhausted.
That was the first thing.
