Chapter 10: Lance Confesses to the Code

The message arrived at 7:43 a.m., before Vivian had touched the coffee gone cold at her elbow or looked away from the screen she'd been staring at since the previous night.

*Quick code review when you have a moment. Your floor. — L*

She read it twice. The casual syntax. The em dash, which was a Lance affectation, his way of making written language feel like speech. *When you have a moment*, which meant now, because Lance Dulac did not request code reviews through Slack at 7:43 a.m. unless the code was on fire or he needed to stand in a room with you before you could decide how to respond to something you'd found.