“Did he scare her?”
Another nod, smaller this time.
Esteban clears his throat. “Sir, with respect, this is inappropriate. That child should not be in the lobby. She was told to stay in the staff area. Her mother violated policy by bringing her to work at all.”
There it is.
Not concern, not urgency, not even the cheap imitation of compassion. Just the reflex of a man who has made a career out of turning his own choices into someone else’s rule violation. You have known men like him in warehouses, in office towers, in city hall, in corner stores with bars on the windows. They all wear different suits, but they all reach for the same shield: policy.
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