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Chapter 14: The Margin
The Authority's hall had a ceiling like a church and chairs like a dentist's waiting room.
I sat in the front row on Thursday at five to ten, with Jarrett on my left and Odessa on my right.
Odessa had brought her own cushion.
"The wire came back Tuesday," Jarrett said, low, as the room filled. "The holder of the paper refused four hundred thousand dollars."
"He doesn't want money," I said.
"No."
"He wants her."
Five members of the Authority's board sat behind a long table, with the chair in the middle.
She was a woman of sixty with iron-grey hair, a plain blue jacket and a face that had refused a great many lunches.
Desmond came in last, in charcoal, with Kiera on his arm in emerald.
He sat her at the witness table, and he sat himself one chair away, close enough to touch.
He did not look at me.
He had no need to.
"This is a technical review of the east-gate safety margin in the Aldridge Labs bid," the chair said.
"I have read the summary. It is thirty percent below the standard."
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