The statement went out at nine fifteen.Elena was at her desk in the Hart Consortium offices when Mills sent her the text.She read it on her phone.Then she put the phone down.Then she picked it up and read it again.Adrian had written it himself.She could tell immediately.Not because she recognised the construction of it or the specific way he structured sentences.Because she recognised the quality of honesty in it.The particular honesty that existed when someone had stopped managing and was simply saying what was true.He described the night of the murder.The phone call from his father.The instructions to go to the hospital.His silence chosen from terror and a version of love that he understood now was not the right version.He described the months that followed.His complicity in building the case against Kane.The specific actions he had taken in service of a lie he had not created but had maintained.He described Brooklyn.The botanical garden.The bench.The decision.N
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