CHAPTER 98: Guarded Gambit

Sarah

Outwardly, I appeared calm while waiting for midnight, but my mind was utterly restless. It was already ten o'clock in the evening; I only had to endure the wait for two more hours.

Since eight that evening, I had been on a group video call with Jakob and the rest of our LoveLogic team, my friend Jane included. I was sequestered alone in my bedroom while Jane participated from the living room. We managed to recruit five additional developers, one of whom had taken over my former coding responsibilities for the application.

"The early download numbers are very promising," Jakob informed us, reading through some of the glowing app reviews we'd received so far. A few thousand users and counting have installed LoveLogic, and the feedback has been tremendously positive."

Though my eyes were fixed on the screen, my mind couldn't focus on the meeting. It kept drifting elsewhere.

"Sarah?" Jakob's voice called out. "Sarah! Jane, did you lose her video feed?"

Confusion was evident o