Vivian and spoken loudly enough for three rows to hear.
“Apparently dignity costs more than she can afford.”
I had ignored him.
That had been the mistake they always made with me.
They assumed silence meant surrender.
In the military, I had learned something different.
Silence was often what came immediately before an ambush.
I broke the seal.
Preston whispered urgently to Martin.
Martin did not answer him.
That told me more than I needed to know.
I removed three pages.
No dramatic stack of evidence.
No photographs.
No dozen
