Steele’s eyes peer over the rim of the tumbler, as his eyes connect with Easton’s penetrating gaze. It is only then, for the first moment he considers the possibility that this entire exchange is strange.
He doesn’t need to have worked for Easton for long to know how out of character this is for him. While he has been by Easton’s side only a short time, he has taken in every single piece of information. Someone so egotistical actually serving others and sitting down with others on an equal platform with people he would consider below him. It is all wrong, Steele is just much too late in coming to his realization.
Steele’s eyes move slowly around the others in the group, but they are all fixed on Easton, so he knows that they don’t suspect a thing and the reverence they feel toward Easton
