"You leaked it." Julian's voice came out flat, stripped of the composure he usually wore like armor. "You leaked the letters. The company scandal. All of it." "I did," Selene said, no hesitation, no defense in her voice at all. "I've been waiting two years to say that to you directly instead of letting a subpoena do it for me." Julian's grip tightened on the phone. "Why." "Because you would never have moved on your own," Selene said. "You'd have kept that folder locked in a study for another eleven years if someone hadn't forced your hand. I watched you do it for the two years I knew you. Circle the truth. Get close enough to touch it. Retreat every single time." "So you decided to make the decision for me." "I decided the people involved deserved to know what happened to them," Sele

