Chapter 16: Sable Vance Orders a Complication

The authorization form had been open for eleven minutes.

Sable knew this because the timestamp was visible in the bottom corner of her secondary screen, and she had a habit, professional and involuntary, of knowing exactly how long things had been sitting unsigned. Unsigned was a state. Unsigned meant a decision was still in motion. The moment she signed, it became a fact, and facts were much harder to adjust than decisions.

She closed the analytics dashboard on her primary screen, opened it again, and looked at the numbers for the fourth time in forty minutes.