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I’ll push harder, press smarter…because sometimes the best offense is a damn good defense. And I know just what to do.

Productive. Miss you. Be safe. We're here when you need us. Love always. -E Better. Honest without being alarming. Focused on the mission instead of emotional reactions. I hit send. And promised myself I'd do better. For Adrien. For the mission. For everyone counting on us to be smarter than our fear. No more reckless plans. No more emotional reactions. Just patience. Discipline. And faith that we'd all survive this. Somehow.

Adam asked, an eyebrow raised in challenge. “We are here to fix the problems of speed, transparency, and access for users who have been underserved for years. Our trust will be earned through consistency and efficiency.” Marina kept her firm posture, gesturing with her hands as she went on and on, giving more answers to his other questions about competition and revenue.

Alex said with a smirk pasted on his face, which in return seemed to further infuriate Arvin, if only such emotion was allowed in his system, to begin with. "Hmmm.. That can be the case. Anyway, charging faster than the others does not necessarily mean that you are more efficient. Productivity would still depend on the amount of work you could cover on a given set of time and based on your build, I don't think that you are any better than the earlier versions of Android Partner."

And I was going to have to be faster, smarter, more ruthless than ever before. Because if I didn’t, I would lose them forever.

Nothing more, nothing less. ******************************************

Her words about legacy lingered, but I wasn’t a man swayed by promises wrapped in pretty language. “You speak of decades,” I said, voice steady. “But technology evolves in months. How do you build something today that doesn’t become obsolete tomorrow?” Elizabeth met my stare without flinching, her posture unbroken. “Because we don’t build for today, Mr. Grayson,” she replied. “We build systems that learn. What makes smart integration powerful isn’t the hardware, but the intelligence that adapts with you. Updates, recalibrations, predictive maintenance, your properties would grow sharper, not weaker, with time. That’s the difference between us and the others. They install. We evolve.”

After a moment of silence, his friends erupted in gleeful cheers. "God, Evan Ferguson, are you the Wolf King Reincarnate? Why are all those hot werewolf babes into you? I'm so jealous." "Don't worry, Evan. Everyone here knows that Bella, as smart and kind as she is, is as fragile as a snowflake. We will never utter a word to her." "We can't quite understand your reason for marrying Bella. She's a human, after all. But as your friends, we will not ruin your plans."

In my younger years, I didn't care so much about what I ate, but now at 33 I have slowly started changing my eating habits, and it has been doing wonders for my body alongside visiting the gym frequently. I ate slowly, taking my time to peruse the hard copy newspaper that was previously neatly folded beside the breakfast. I liked my mornings slow and quiet and so far it was looking to be anything but that as my phone rang loudly again. This time it was Keith, the Chief Operating Officer of the New York office. As we were in the process of launching a new biotech device in collaboration with the US government, this wasn't a call I could just ignore even if I wanted to. I threw down the newspa