VANCE’S POV

When the lift doors opened onto the seventeenth floor the next day, I was glad to be away from the buzz at the reception of the agency. I was surprised by the agitation inside the agency reception. Usually, there was a warm atmosphere in the company, but today, for some reason, everyone seemed to be under stress or preoccupied with something. Whatever was going down, I had not been briefed and did not want to know.

I was irritated and annoyed since I ...