In order to reduce the chances of your enemy knowing you better than you knew yourself, the best thing to do was to introspect.
That was something that her grandfather had instilled in her from an early age. Already preparing her for the post of CEO even when she had been just a little girl. As such, if there was one thing that Haley Slater was not afraid to do, it was to introspect.
No matter how painful a situation, she often forced herself to divorce her feelings from the whole thing, and to look at her issues as though she were a bystander, who had no emotional stake in the problem whatsoever.
It was a tactic that had not failed Haley in the past, and she was currently employing it.
Something was not right, and whatever it is that was wrong, it had to do with Haley instead of Deacon Roth, or her surroundings.
