Chapter 5
Jake checked his tie in the reflection of the highly polished elevator’s button panel and straightened it. He lucked out. No one was riding the elevator with him. He punched the button for the fourteenth floor, aware that security had already notified Kidder LaRose Samson of his pending arrival. The low ding announced the lift would open soon and as it did, he stepped out, casually scanning both his left and right to see which way to go. On his right, about twenty feet away stood a light mahogany desk with a black veneer. A young, twenty-something Asian woman sat behind it, wearing a wireless headset for the phone system. As he approached, the woman nodded her head, held out her hand, signaling him to wait. Jake suffered the ignominy in being treated like cattle. And, could he b
