Kissed My Rival, Hear His Mind novel · Chapter 21 of 32
Chapter 21: Eight O'Clock
At seven fifty-two Eli's phone buzzed once against his hip.
An email from Copenhagen, with the Kronborg Foundation's crest at the top.
He turned the phone face-down in his pocket without opening it.
He had a room to stand in.
The board met in the firm's own studio, because Godfrey had arranged it that way.
The long model wall had been pushed back, and rows of folding chairs filled the open floor.
Forty Lippincott employees stood along the glass in their good shirts, with their coffee gone cold.
In the front row sat the board chair in her helmet of white hair.
The man in the gold blazer sat on her left.
The firm's four other partners had taken the side chairs, with their arms folded.
A young reporter sat two rows behind them with a notebook on her knee.
Godfrey had put her there himself.
Eli knew it from the way Godfrey didn't look at her.
Craig stood by the lantern model with a rolled sheet under his arm and a bruise coming up purple on his jaw.
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