“On Monday,” Chloe said, “I would like you to have your group finish up all of their current outgoing letters and then take the remainder of the week off. We won’t be pursuing any further funding for the immediate future.”
Phillip was stunned. “You’re laying us off?”
“Not you,” Chloe said. “You’re staying here until we sort this out. Your team, however, is temporarily unnecessary. We can pay them in the interim, can’t we, Daniel?”
“As far as I am aware, that should pose no problem,” Daniel said. “I will have my group run through the budget and provide an estimate on how long such a state may persist.”
“Good enough,” Chloe said.
“I still feel kind of useless, though,” Phillip said.
“Far from it,” Katherine said. “You were absolutely right in there. Alex was unstable, and when I finally called him on the magazine thing, that was what caused it to fail. If anyone’s responsible, it should be me. We almost had him until–”
“You never had him!” Phillip snapped. “He came in here dead-set against it! There was no way in hell he was going to listen to a word any of us said!”
“Phillip, calm down,” Daniel said. “The reason for Alexander’s non-receptiveness is partially explained by how the MacKenzies were contacted. For that, the blame falls upon my shoulders.”
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