Alice

“Okay,” Miss Stella said calmly after a few seconds of silence. She didn’t smile right away, but her posture was straight—that kind of authority that doesn’t need to raise its voice to be felt. “We’ll take Alice’s proposal as the base framework.”

A few eyebrows lifted around the room.

She stood slightly and looked across the entire team.

“I want this refined by tomorrow morning. And Alice—” she paused, then turned her gaze back to me, “—you’ll be part of the core discussions moving forward.”

Something slammed hard against my chest.

It wasn’t loud praise. It wasn’t dramatic. But it was clear.

A decision.

And at MobTech, I knew...