London Interlude and Separation

Two weeks had passed since the handoff in Switzerland, and London was enveloped in its characteristic late-autumn drizzle. The gray skies hung low over the Thames, reflecting the cold, bureaucratic sheen of the Lloyd's building on Lime Street. Inside the glass-walled executive boardroom on the fourteenth floor, Geneva Scott stood before the assembled board of directors. A crystal award commemorating the successful recovery of the Blood Star Diamond rested on…