[Summit Partners: Chairman's Office]
"I asked for Yuri, Allen," Atlas said, leaning back in his swivel chair and staring at Allen across the desk. His frosty eyes then drifted to the woman seated on the guest couch in the office.
"I didn't ask for her."
Allen sighed, knowing this would happen when he returned to Novera without the person Atlas had requested.
"I did my best, sir," Allen mentally winced, imagining Atlas's thought that his "best" was pathetic. "But Yuri was hiding somewhere. I think she had a premonition that I was coming to get her."
Atlas's face darkened, causing Allen to avoid his gaze. Just then, the woman chuckled.
"Do you hate me so much that you have to scold Allen like that?" the woman quipped, pushing herself up from the couch since the person she came for didn't bother to.
