“I want you to be the one who asks her,” Lena said, and Cal understood, before she’d finished the sentence, why the request had made him go still behind his own desk. “The board discussed it this morning, informally, after Kapoor’s preliminary report. Southline handled cleanly, the Alcazar claim heading toward resolution instead of scandal, a covenant model that finally holds. Half the room thinks Nora Vasquez should have a permanent seat inside this company instead of a contract that ends when the audit does. I agree with them.”
“Ask her yourself. You’re the board chair.”
“I could. It would land better coming from you.” Lena said it plainly, without much delicacy, the same directness she’d used on Nora in this building’s boardroom weeks ago. “You know her. I don’t — not the way that would tell me how to frame an offer like this so it doesn’t sound like…
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