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POV: VictoriaI had not slept properly in eleven days. I knew the exact number because I had been counting, the way you count things when your mind needs something small and manageable to hold onto while everything larger falls apart around it. Eleven nights of lying in the dark with the ceiling above me and the silence pressing down like something physical, heavy and suffocating.The hotel room was nice. Marcus was still paying for it, which meant he still considered me an asset rather than a problem. For now. But I had heard what Sophia said to him last week, standing in the corridor outside his office while I waited to be let in for a meeting that got cancelled without explanation.Her voice through the door, smooth and deliberate, the voice of a woman making a careful argument. "Victoria is a loose end, Marcus. She knows too much and she's too emotional to be reliable. You saw how she looked at the board meeting. She's cracking."A pause. His voice, too low for me to make out the
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POV: DavidWe were out of the apartment in eleven minutes. I had a bag already half packed from the day the warning message came about eyes inside the building. Paranoia or preparation, I had not been sure which at the time. Now I was glad for it. I grabbed the case files, the hard drives, Camille's folder, and the essentials. Olivia moved fast and without complaint, which told me the brick through the window had shifted something in her. The quiet stubbornness she used to slow things down when she felt her independence being managed was gone. She was in survival mode now.Survival mode kept people alive.vI called Marcus while we took the stairs. Not Marcus Collins. My friend Marcus Webb, no relation to the judge, who owned a photography loft on the west side of the city that he used maybe four months out of the year when he was between assignments. He answered on the second ring, heard three sentences of explanation, and said the address without asking for more details. That was th
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POV: OliviaNobody spoke for a moment after Zara said it. David was the first to move. He pulled a chair from against the wall and sat down, leaning forward with his elbows on his knees, his full attention on her. I stayed where I was, standing near the window, because sitting felt impossible right now."Senator Pryce," I said.Zara nodded. "Gerald Pryce. Four term senator, judiciary committee, clean public record, the kind of politician that other politicians point to when they need an example of respectability." She opened her folder and turned it toward us on the desk. "For the past six years, he has been running campaign contributions through a series of shell companies, cleaning the money, and parking it in legitimate business investments. One of those investments is Marcus Collins's company."I looked at the document. Financial flowcharts, company names I did not recognize, dates."Marcus's company is the washing machine," Zara continued. "Money goes in dirty through campaign co
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POV: OliviaDavid told me about the bar notice the same way he told me everything difficult. Directly, without cushioning it, sitting across from me at the kitchen table with the letter flat between us so I could read it myself rather than receive a softened version.I read it twice. Formal review of professional conduct. Allegations of romantic involvement with a current client. Thirty days to respond. Practice suspended pending outcome if response deemed insufficient.I pushed the letter back across the table and stood up."I'll find another lawyer," I said."No.""David..""No." He picked the letter up and folded it with the deliberate calm of someone who had already decided how they felt about something and was not interested in revisiting it. "This is a fabricated complaint built on manipulated photographs. I have thirty days to dismantle it and I will.""And while you're spending those thirty days dismantling a false ethics complaint, who is building our actual case?" I turned t
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POV: MarcusI found out about Lena on a Tuesday morning. Leo placed the intelligence report on my desk without a word, the way he always delivered things he knew would require a reaction I would not want witnessed. He set it down, stepped back, and waited by the door with his hands clasped, looking at a point on the wall slightly above my head.I read the first paragraph twice.David Chen had submitted a formal information request to Croatian maritime authorities regarding a boating incident from four years ago. The request cited a named vessel, a named charter company, and a named victim.Lena Vasquez. I set the paper down slowly."Who else has seen this?" I asked."Only me," Leo said. "The contact in the maritime liaison office flagged it directly to our line as agreed.""Good." I straightened the paper against the desk, aligning it with the edge. A small, mechanical action that gave my hands something to do while my mind moved quickly through the implications. "That will be all, Le
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POV: DavidOlivia did not want me to go alone. She did not say it loudly. That was not her way. She said it quietly, standing by the table with a case file held against her chest like a shield, her eyes steady on my face."You don't know what she wants," she said."I know what she said she wants. Information about Marcus.""You don't know that she's not being used. Marcus knows about me and you. He knows you're my lawyer. Going to your ex-wife with something designed to pull you away from here alone at night is exactly the kind of move..""Camille is not working for Marcus." I said it with more certainty than felt comfortable. The truth was I did not know what Camille had been doing for the past two years. But I knew her. I had known her for eleven years. The voice on that phone was not a performance.Olivia looked at me for a moment, then looked away. "Fine."That one word carried a considerable amount of weight."I'll have my phone on the whole time," I said. "Zara is ten minutes aw
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