You Fired a Tech Genius novel · Chapter 26 of 32
Chapter 26: The Lobby Wall
Fourteen hundred people came out of the Hallett tower onto the sidewalk.
They stood in the cold in their sweaters and badges, looking up.
The fire trucks came in four minutes.
The firefighters walked in with their axes and walked out again in six.
The lieutenant told the crowd it was a pulled alarm, with no smoke and no fire.
Nobody went back inside.
They stood in clumps along the glass with their coffee, whispering.
Braxton came out through the revolving door last.
He had no badge and no coat, and no one to hold a door for him.
He stopped in the middle of the pavement and looked around at the people who had worked for him.
A man near the curb turned his back.
Then a woman did, then three engineers together, then a whole row.
I was on the far side of the sidewalk with Bridger.
I watched him find the only face still looking at him.
It was mine.
He crossed the pavement in a straight line.
The rest of this chapter is part of the paid portion of the series. Chapters 1–16 of You Fired a Tech Genius are free to read — start from the beginning, then unlock the rest with coins in the app.
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