It was one of the perks of being an Alpha and the boss, I thought. Within an hour of him texting both the editor of Social Scene and Matilda were sitting across from us in his office.
We spent the next hour going over a plan and potential roadblocks we might encounter. It was educational to hear Sally's take on things, to hear the experience she brought of how to handle certain scenarios.
When we finished and Charles offered to order in dinner for all of us, I felt confident that Matilda and I were set up to be as successful as was possible.
It was a serious but slightly celebratory mood, full of anticipation and the knowledge that we were doing the right thing, that there was something wrong that we were going to be helping put it right.
Sally seemed like a new person. Instead of
