Chapter 62

When Mason saw me walk in, he put down his phone. He looked at me and asked, “How was the site recce?”

“Not too bad. Do you need anything from me?” His schedule was not free enough for him to come all this way just to play with his phone.

“I told you this morning that I’d send you some soup.” He passed me a container. “Drink this while it’s still hot. It’s good for suppressing nausea.”

“Thank you.” I was grateful. He had been very attentive to me and my troubles recently, and I felt bad he had had to come all this way. “I’ll buy you a meal someday to make up for this.”

“That’ll have to wait till after you’re done with this whole spokesperson thing. I heard you’re organizing a huge talent show for this?” Mason sounded like he had just learned about it.

“Yeah, so it can be fair and no one feels insulted,” I joked.

He lifted his head to look at me. “Do you ever wonder if the reason Theo passed this job to you was that he didn’t wanna work with Newlight any longer? What are you gonna