MIRA

I didn’t expect the world to shift on a Wednesday, didn’t expect the air around me to thicken all of a sudden, or the whispers in the boardroom to fade into something like awe, fear, or both. Yet, that was the atmosphere when I walked into the top floor conference room of Nora Global and found Damian Holt waiting for me.

He’s tall, and composed, with minor sprinkles of sheer intimidation. He’s charismatic in that unnerving way people become after inheriting too much power at a ...