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“It is, it really is amazing,” Mieux said, passing the files from her tablet hand to the forearm of her cellphone hand, cradling them against her chest.“I’m not exactly qualified to give you a full history of Mosaic, but I can say you will not find Mosaic HQ lacking.”
“If you’re not qualified, why are you here?”Helena asked.“Don’t you work here?”
“I’m on contract from the Brooker Agency,” Mieux said.“I go wherever they need me.I’ve worked with Mosaic a few times.It’s one of my favorite places to be.”
“You’re a temp,” Helena said.
She didn’t have to be so snide, did she?Why was Helena sneering at the woman there to support them?
“Something like that,” Mieux said with half a shrug.Walking backward, she tried to gesture for them to follow.“As you were all, are all, Mosaic employees, your security credentials are on the system.You’ve been upgraded…” Even as she walked backward, the smooth glass doors inset from the exterior wall slid open.“So you’re already authorized to go where you can and can’t go.”
“Where can we go?”Myles asked.
“Where can’t we go?”was Franco’s question.
“As you can see…” Mieux did her best to open her arms, “there are food and drink establishments, convenience and clothes stores.Anything you could need is available here at Mosaic.Everything on this floor is accessible to everyone.You need office supplies?Coffee at two a.m.?You can get both here.”She kept on going backwards.“Gym and pool facilities are available to all.Spa and other recreational facilities too.”She read the top file.“Who’s Franco?”
Oops, yeah, maybe they should’ve introduced themselves.
Franco held up a hand to receive a file.As Mieux said each of their names, they got their own documents.Security logins, policies and procedures, employee handbook, maps of the building, the campus, the village… and a lease, hmm, interesting.
“I’ll show you around down here, the different facilities we have, and then upstairs, where you’ll be working.It seems overwhelming now, I know, but you have the weekend to settle in.”
“Are the other team here?”Helena asked.“I’d like to meet them.”
“Not yet, they are on their way though,” Mieux said.“You should be able to meet them before your flight.”
Helena had elected to go home and arrange her things for the move to California.She wasn’t as particular.The movers could pack her essentials.She’d brought her laptop and could get a new vibrator.What else was there to worry about?
“Have you met him?”Franco asked, stalling Mieux after one step.
“Him?Mr.Rourke?”
“Yeah,” Franco said.“We haven’t been introduced.We’ve been in the same room as him but Roux—”
“Okay, she doesn’t need to hear about that,” Helena said.“We have a fresh start here.”
Somehow, she didn’t think that was Helena’s way of protecting her.No, she probably wanted everyone to forget about her fit at the pitch.
“I have met him,” Mieux said.“But he meets fifty new people a day, don’t be surprised if he forgets a name or sends others in his stead.Mosaic prides itself on collaborative working.It’s part of their schtick, I guess you could say.”
“Dyce Technologies shares the campus.”
“It does,” Mieux said, smile growing.“Mr.Rourke and Mr.Dyce have known each other since they were children.They share many of the same resources and often meet to brainstorm or help each other through dilemmas.”
That felt a little like the brochure spiel.
“Have you met Mr.Dyce?”
“What is your obsession with who’s met who?”she asked Franco.“What does it matter?”
“I want to meet them,” Franco said.“Everyone wants to meet their heroes.”
“Oh, God,” she groaned, turning her head away.
Suck their cocks why don’t you?
“They live here, right?Mr.Rourke and Mr.Dyce.Somewhere on campus?”
