Chapter 71

McNeil stormed out into the night.

Victoria heard the car door slam with a force that spoke of pent-up anger.

Xenia stood there, lost and uncertain, still clutching the suit jacket.

"Ma'am"

Victoria glanced at her. "Take the jacket and get it cleaned."

She had exchanged contact information with Marcus yesterday; she needed to return his jacket eventually.

Victoria hadn't slept a wink all night. The next morning, as soon as she got up, Gwyneth came looking for her.

"Mommy, did you find that game yet?"

Rubbing her eyes sleepily, Gwyneth watched as Victoria made her breakfast herself.

"Almost."

Quantum Core Technologies also developed gaming software, so Victoria figured she could use some company resources to get the app launched. It would just take a little time.

excitement, could barely sit

time Victoria saw Violet was during the weekly

next to Curtis, while Victoria— despite being his

noticed Victoria standing off to the side, it was too late to ask anyone to

looked every bit the part in her tailored business suit, her makeup flawless, exuding

the other hand, had been up all night and only caught a couple hours of sleep at

was worlds apart from Violet, who

me to find you a chair?"

would deliberately try to embarrass

Mr. Garcia. I'll stand," Victoria replied

the issue. Victoria was a married woman, after all; even if he had any personal feelings, showing too much concern

"Thank you

the back, notebook in

two hours in, just as the meeting

drone project we discussed last time deserves another look. This seems

and Ailie had already

like this often end up getting bought out and shelved, never making it to market or generating any real profit for the company. The prospects looked good on paper, but in reality, it was the military that would be most

something Ailie and Victoria had

hadn't been fully briefed.

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