Chapter 109: Lucian Mystery Background
Cameron's POV
I almost didn't go.
I sat in the car outside Lucian's building for eleven minutes, just staring at his building—I know because I watched the clock, with the kind of specific discipline of someone who had thought it through and had decided that counting was preferable to thinking—and I ran through every version of this that ended badly, which was most of them, and I told myself I should drive away and handle it through the proper channels, through HR, through the formal reinstatement process that Durian had confirmed was still available if I moved quickly enough.
I could send an email. Not to his personal address—I'd decided that was the wrong approach and hadn't changed my mind—but to the HR department instead, a simple instruction
