The silence Alessandro left behind was different from the silence that had filled the room before. Earlier, his silence had been confidence. Now, it was calculation. He sat with his back straight and his hands resting calmly before him, but the certainty in his eyes was no longer there. The recording had ended, the screen had gone black, and yet Alessandro still appeared to be watching something only he could see. Justice Elena allowed the silence to remain for several more seconds. She did not rush him. She did not ask what he had recognized in Ethan Rhodes’s recording. She did not need him to explain it. Instead, she returned to the interrogation table and opened the file Alessandro had dismissed so easily before. “Let us continue,” she said. Alessandro lifted his eyes toward her. His expression was controlled again, but it was no longer effortless. “I believe I have already answered your questions.” “You have.” Justice Elena sat across from him. “That is precisely why
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