Unbeknownst
An unobserved hour in a house I had been so careful, for so long, to leave alone.
I had given them the time myself.
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I did the last of it at midnight, at my laptop, using the company-search subscription my work pays for, which is the one genuinely useful thing it has ever given me.
Rousset Conseil, SAS, registered in Lyon two years earlier. A domiciliation address, the kind that is nothing but a postbox. No accounts filed. A single director, Théo Rousset, no previous mandates. His professional profile was fourteen months old and had no history before that, only three hundred connections and the word insurance where a career should be.
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