A three AM phone call about a locked room changed everything

have the final figures on your desk by noon.”

I pulled the blue notebook from my bag and set it gently over her keyboard.

“Look at the section marked with the yellow tab.”

Kara stopped typing.

She reached out with her black pen and tapped the metal clip of her clipboard in a rhythmic pattern, three fast beats, then a pause.

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