The hours passed the way hours passed when you were waiting for something you wouldn't admit you were waiting for.
Aurora worked through the morning with the particular focus of someone who had decided not to check the time. Documents reviewed, emails answered, a fifteen-minute call with Vanessa about a few legal documents to be signed. She moved through it all with her usual efficiency and did not look at the clock and did not look at her phone and did not think about the fact that their joint session had been scheduled for ten AM and it was now noon and the chair across from her conference table was empty.
He was angry.
