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ETHAN POV“Yes.”I shut down the editing monitor and led Claire into the conference room at the end of the hall. She sat and glanced at the clock.“Twenty minutes. I remember.”She placed a jewelry box on the table and opened it. Inside were the watch I had returned at the party and the engagement ring I had once given her.“These should go back to you.”“My attorney can handle them.”Claire drew out a signed document.“The joint account has been divided according to our original deposits. Your share will reach your attorney’s trust account this week, and I’m covering the fees from the failed property transaction.”“My attorney already told me.”“I canceled everything with the fertility clinic as well. I never started the medication. There was no egg retrieval, and no embryos were created.” She kept her eyes on the document. “The divorce hearing is next month. The board has suspended my management authority, and the compliance report is due next week.”Investigators now had Adrian’s fo

ETHAN POVThree weeks later, the marquee outside the Global Wildlife Film Festival carried the title of our documentary, The Last Open Country, above the names Ethan Cole, Director, and Maya Torres, Producer.Noah met us in the lobby and inspected the suit I had rescued from storage.“It still fits,” he said. “That may be the most improbable part of this entire production.”Maya handed him his ticket. “Wait until you see what the river did to two cameras.”Noah had attended my first Los Angeles premiere. That night, Claire left before the theater lights went down because Adrian had sent her another emergency message. He remembered the empty seat beside me, though he never mentioned it after I accepted the Nairobi assignment.This time, Maya sat on my right while Noah took the seat on my left.The film opened with dawn over northern Kenya. Wild dogs emerged from their den one by one, the pups stumbling after the adults through wet grass. Over its ninety-minute runtime, the film carried