Nicholas’s POV

On a Tuesday, we were in the study going through the shareholder list for the confidence vote.

Harris was standing on the other side of the desk reading out contact names while I cross-referenced them against the private notes I had been building for weeks.

It was routine work.

We had done this together hundreds of times over ten years.

His phone buzzed in his pocket and he glanced at it.

That part was normal, Harris got calls constantly and he always glanced ...