Chapter 31 The Countdown
The two weeks began with a strange, suspended kind of normalcy, the entire team around me — Kian, Kennedy, Reyes, the outside legal counsel now fully read into the case — moving through coordinated preparation with the focused intensity of people building toward something they knew was coming and co...
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Chapters
1. Chapter 1 Hands That Don't Shake
2. Chapter 2 The Report
3. Chapter 3 The Twelfth Floor
4. Chapter 4 What the File Doesn't Say
5. Chapter 5 Seven A.M.
6. Chapter 6 What Jake Saw
7. Chapter 7 What the Plate Found
8. Chapter 8 The Cousin's Game
9. Chapter 9 The Bennett Family Table
10. Chapter 10 Kennedy's Question
11. Chapter 11 The Pattern
12. Chapter 12 The Easy Kind of Quiet
13. Chapter 13 He Knows
14. Chapter 14 The Name on the Page
15. Chapter 15 What His Father Signed
16. Chapter 16 The Cousin's Move
17. Chapter 17 On the Ice
18. Chapter 18 The Envelope
19. Chapter 19 Small Mercies
20. Chapter 20 The Board
21. Chapter 21 What Neither of Us Said
22. Chapter 22 The Name Behind the Name
23. Chapter 23 Diane
24. Chapter 24 The Second Mother
25. Chapter 25 The Confrontation
26. Chapter 26 Too Close
27. Chapter 27 What I Could Tell Her
28. Chapter 28 Okafor
29. Chapter 29 Where I Slept
30. Chapter 30 The Audit Report
31. Chapter 31 The Countdown
32. Chapter 32 What Carl Wanted
33. Chapter 33 The Missing Files
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