The alliance began, as most significant things did in this household, with a PowerPoint presentation.
Sophie had been working on her sequel presentation—tentatively titled The Ear Chronicles: Volume Two—A Comprehensive Analysis of Lucas Grey's Emotional Development Post-Eleanor—for approximately three weeks. She had forty-seven slides, sixteen charts, a twelve-page appendix, and a section dedicated entirely to the seventeen names Eleanor had called Lucas during her visit, complete with audio recordings she had captured through the penthouse ventilation system. It was, by her own assessment, her finest work.
