If they needed me, the call would stop.

I accepted those conditions.

I wore the crimson jacket over the clothes I had arrived in.

A nurse adjusted the pillows behind me, then stepped aside while the connection opened.

Patrick’s conference room appeared on the screen.

He stood at the long table with board members and advisers around him.

There was a bottle of champagne nearby.

He had been celebrating the expected financing and the Aether Tech acquisition before all the conditions had cleared.