"I'm answering your question."

She didn't step any closer, not when South could no longer run away, allowing that small expanse of space between them. "I made the wrong call. And I paid for it. But you better believe the Director didn't care either way who did or didn't get an AI even before I took those two."

She folded her arms over her chest. "If you want to believe otherwise, that you're so hard done by, go right ahead. You always have."