Too late

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I nervously tapped the desk with my pencil and my pulse quickened in anticipation. I sat in front of the phone, waiting for her to call. Waiting for anything besides this agony.

When the phone did eventually ring, I answered it without a moment of hesitation. And before waiting for her to say anything I asked. I needed to know.

"Did it work?" 

Her young, sweet voice replied with; "Plan B is in motion, it was too late"

I hung up the phone quickly and prayed for the plan to work.

It had too.

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