Chapter 32 — An Uneasy AllianceHe finds me in the study that night, exactly where I expect him to, and for once he doesn't wait for me to set the terms of the conversation."I need you to tell me what you know about Thursday," he says, closing the door behind him. "Not fragments. Not whatever you think is safe to hand me. Everything."I set down my pen slowly, studying him. There's a different quality to his voice tonight, less careful, less managed, something closer to a man who's finally decided the cost of staying quiet has grown larger than the cost of being honest."Why the sudden urgency," I say. "You've spent weeks asking me to trust your silence. Now you want mine handed over on demand?""Because someone's about to leak information about the South Corridor to a journalist, and apparently that same day is the deadline for whatever's actually been orchestrating my life since I woke up in that hospital bed," he says. "If I'm going to be blindsided by something that could destro
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