The Shape Of Obsession
"Not the questions he asked. The order he asked them in."
Marcus considered that, turning it over the way he did when he was deciding whether to agree or push back. "You think it's deliberate? The sequencing."
"I think he doesn't know he's doing it consciously anymore. It's become instinct." I'd read the file on him three times before choosing Marcus, and the psychology of it had stayed with me longer than the rest of the details. A criminal psychology student wrongfully convicted, trained by circumstance to read a room before he'd finished walking into it. Most men in that position broke. Miles had turned the skill outward instead, sharpened it against everyone who came near him, myself inc