Malik’s POV

Numbers to me might resist clarity at first glance, but they always resolve into truth if you stay long enough, it was one major rule i lived by

Except that tonight, I stared too long but still they refused to settle tonight however, the numbers have refused to settle. I stared at the ledgers spread across the long table in the strategy room, my fingers pressed flat against the parchment as if the weight I was putting on it would force everything I was staring at to make some ...