Chapter 144

Luisa is talking to me about the Kim deal, but I am once again finding it hard to concentrate due to a severe case of Amber Syndrome. My assistant glares at me and waves her hands in front of my face, snapping her fingers. “Earth to Elijah, come in,” she says in her usual assertive tone. “I heard you.” I glare back at her. Luisa has an incredibly bright business mind. She is smart, driven, and ambitious—but she really doesn’t know how to read a room. Or rather, she does; she just chooses to ignore what she reads. “What did I say, then?” she asks. She stands in front of me with her hands on her hips, her dark hair swept up into a brutally tight bun as usual. She’s been with Jamestech for six years, working her way through the ranks, and has been my right-hand woman for the last eighteen months. She is a pain in my ass, and she gets away with talking to me in a way nobody else would. She gets away with it because her constant challenge makes me better. It’s like having one of my brothers