#Chapter 48: Chaos at City Hall

It was one of the perks of being an Alpha and the boss, I thought. Within an hour of him texting both the editor of Social Scene and Matilda were sitting across from us in his office. We spent the next hour going over a plan and potential roadblocks we might encounter. It was educational to hear Sally's take on things, to hear the experience she brought of how to handle certain scenarios. When we finished and Charles offered to order in dinner for all of us, I felt confident that Matilda and I were set up to be as successful as was possible. It was a serious but slightly celebratory mood, full of anticipation and the knowledge that we were doing the right thing, that there was something wrong that we were going to be helping put it right. Sally seemed like a new person. Instead of the tired, serious woman I'd come to know she was alert, her eyes full of fire and rattling off ideas that we all could hardly keep up with. "This is the Sally I remember from my childhood," Ch