# THOMPSON-HAYES: BLOOD MONEY
## Chapter Thirty-Eight — What Mia Tells Nathan
She told him on a Wednesday evening in late March.
Not because it was the right moment — she had stopped waiting for right moments, having learned the hard way that they were mostly a fiction used to defer things you were afraid to say. She told him because he was sitting on her couch and they had just finished dinner and the apartment was quiet and warm and she had been carrying this particular thing for long enough.
She had never told him the full version of why she trusted him.
Not the case-version — the thing underneath the case. The specific, personal reason that had nothing to do with equity agreements or court dates or the specific quality of a man who chose to tell the truth even when telling the tru
