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Chapter 91: The Accident

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"May I?"

The silence that followed my question was not the silence of confusion. It was the silence of a room that had already been through so many silences in one morning it no longer quite knew which one this was.

Whitfield found his voice first. "Mrs. Whitmore. Of course. Please, take whatever time you need."

"Thank you." I kept my hands folded. I did not want to give any of it away yet. "This will not take long."

Adrian, across the table, had recovered a little. His lawyer had leaned over a
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