The first thing Harlan did when he found out about Alderton was nothing.
That was what made it unsettling. She had expected movement, some visible response, a counter maneuver or a direct conversation or at minimum the particular chill that certain people deployed when they understood they had lost ground. Instead he walked through the building the same way he always did, pleasant and upright and entirely contained, and he said nothing and did nothing and the silence of it had a quality she did not entirely trust.
Damien had told her on Thursday morning, two days after the Alderton meeting.
"He knows," he said. They were in his office, early, before the floor filled up. "Webb would have informed him.
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