The first morning at Gray & Milton passed in a blur of new faces and names I was supposed to remember. Numbers, projections, expectations—those I could handle. People? People were trickier.
Priya, the first on the team to introduce herself, was tall, sharp-eyed, and carried herself like she already knew she was going to run this place in ten years. She shook my hand once, firmly, then went right into explaining how the system worked, how reports were filed, how the spreadsheets spoke their own language if you learned to read them. No small talk, no wasted words. Efficient, precise. Like a walking manual.
Then there was Derrick—loud, easygoing, and already making jokes that shouldn't have been funny but somehow were.
