You Fired a Tech Genius novel · Chapter 24 of 32

Chapter 24: The Step

By seven o'clock there were nine hundred and forty merchants on Zoe's phone line.

She had done what she does, which is the thing nobody expects.

She opened a conference bridge, put every Hallett owner who called on it, and let them hear each other.

They had been frightened separately, and now they were furious together.

I was at the terminal on the forty-first floor with my sleeves pushed up.

I was putting a nightly check back into a system I had warned them not to take apart.

Gilbert sat beside me in his wheelchair with the card in his lap.

My phone rang on the desk.

"Put him on," Zoe said.

"Zoe, he's had open-heart surgery..."

"Sixty-seven. I know his age."

"A grocer on the line wants to know if the old man is real, and if he has anything to say."

I looked at Gilbert.

He had heard her.

He nodded once, and held out his hand.

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