Karen had come to the main office of the Billion Bloodline group on her own, exactly as it had been requested of her. The request had felt more like a demand, a firm condition for allowing her a seat at the table. Seeing as she had very little choice in the matter and her options were dwindling by the hour, she had complied without her usual protest.
As she stood on the sidewalk, looking up at the sleek, modern facade of the building, a number of thoughts raced through her head.
'A new VC company coming out of practically nowhere,' she mused, her eyes narrowing as she studied the architecture. 'They hardly have any history to speak of. For a firm to just pop up like this and command such a presence, they have to have someone incredibly powerful backing them from the shadows.'
