Chapter 4Charlie frowned at Janet when he came through the door. Bright rays slanted across her desk, the sun barely clearing the Sierra Nevadas.
“How do you do it?” he asked.
Janet smiled. “Look so refreshed and clean after working ”til midnight, sleeping on a cot, getting up at dawn, and having none of my usual beautification appliances around me?”
“Yeah! I can barely function with all that. Take it away and I'm a helpless doddering old fart!”
She shook her head. “Leave a girl a few secrets, would you? I made you some coffee, oh, and I brought the crew some donuts—in the break room.” She'd enjoyed seeing all her old acquaintances, people she'd worked alongside for five years, and then had supervised for another five.
“Thank you.” He shook his head. “You always were the first one in.
