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She thought, too, about her own place inside that manipulation — chosen, deliberately, months before she'd ever set foot in Harriet's office, not for her own sake but as an instrument in Desmond Cade's elaborate scheme to save his son from himself.
It should have made her angry. Some part of her, she recognized, probably was angry, or would be, once the shock fully settled. But mostly, sitting there in the cooling afternoon light, she found herself thinking about the year that had actually unfolded — Sadie's pancake test, the terrace conversations, Freddy's diner, the slow, hard-won honesty they'd built together, one difficult conversation at a time. Whatever manipulative scheme had set the