ELION

I was in a park.

A public park

On a Saturday afternoon.

The grounds were crowded with families, children sticky with melted ice cream, street musicians assaulting their borrowed instruments, and people engaging in aimless recreational activities that bored me to death

Precisely the kind of environment I had spent my entire adult life avoiding.

And yet, here I stood in the middle of it all because Loretta Sterling had appeared at my door this morning, looked up at me with those impossible eyes, and asked.

She asked, and I immediately ditched a very important, exclusive meeting that I had been planning for weeks now just for a day...