章 70: Chapter 70: Masters, Part 4

James

Lunch eaten, we settle to work, she on a textbook, me on an extended explanation of the permits and certifications I’m going to need from Haswell. It has not escaped me that having his PA, Francis, able to follow the notes will help move things along, so I am at pains to explain things in a manner to suit the non-informed but intelligent reader.

After several hours, I’m making headway, but it’s slow work, and I want to get it back to Haswell tomorrow.

Michael returns, all smiles, and winking at me when her back’s turned….

He’s happy it went well, then….

While I work on my laptop, sculpting words and phrases until they say what I want them to. Charlotte and Michael settle with the couch; he stretched out with some thriller novel, she on the rug by his feet, brow furrowed over the text she’s working on, occasionally making notes in the margins.