Chapter 18 INTIMACY DEEPENS

​The "weekend away" wasn't a vacation in the traditional sense. It was a tactical retreat to a glass-walled cabin Elias owned on the rugged, fog-drenched coast of Mendocino. There were no assistants, no board members, and, for the first time, no earpieces.

​The silence of the redwoods was heavy, broken only by the distant, rhythmic boom of the Pac