THE LIABILITY CLAUSE
"Meridian is the twelfth. Meridian is the twelfth confirmed. There are more. I haven't gotten to the more."
Jonah put his hand over his mouth. He was not, ordinarily, a demonstrative person; he was, of the two of them, the calm one, the one you gave the phone to when a client was screaming. He kept his hand over his mouth for a long time.
Then he said, from behind it, "Dad."
"I know."
"You think Adrian is"