《Vows Written In Silence 》全部章節：第 71 章 - 第 73 章

The site visit was scheduled for two hours. It ran three and a half. Not because anything went wrong. Because Amirah kept asking questions. Not performing questions — the kind associates asked to appear engaged, the kind that announced themselves as questions without actually needing answers. Real ones. The kind that required the site manager to go back to his drawings twice and recalculate something he had assumed was settled. Matthew stood slightly apart from the group and watched her work. He had brought her because Raiyan had said bring her and because the Meridian site required someone who could read a compliance gap in a structural brief and she had demonstrated in forty-one slides that she could. That was the reason. He watched her crouch down beside the eastern drainage channel in her good coat — completely unbothered about the good coat — and ask the site manager something that made the man pause for four seconds before answering. He looked at his watch. He looked bac

"Then ask what you're actually asking." He came close enough that she had to choose to hold her ground or step back. She held her ground. "I'm asking," he said, quieter now, "what you're trying to prove. In that courtroom. Every day." His eyes were on her face. Reading it the way he always had, the way that used to make her feel seen and trapped simultaneously. "You could have settled months ago. You could have gotten more for those families without putting them through a trial. So what is this actually about." She looked at him steadily. "Corporate accountability," she said. "Which you would know about if you'd read the environmental impact assessment that your own scientists buried." "Zoya." "That is my answer, Raiyan." “Is that all? Why didn’t Mr. Moss settle today? Everything was there. There’s no reason to drag this?” She also knew this. In fact she had wanted to settle today. The terms were reasonable. The victims would have been compensated. She had been ready. She loo