# THOMPSON-HAYES: THE INSIDE OUT
## Chapter Fifteen — Fracture Line
The argument started on a Saturday morning over coffee.
Not about the big things — the big things they had learned to navigate. It started because Nathan said: "I think we need to talk about how far you go with the Cross situation."
She was at the stove. She turned around.
"We've talked about it," she said.
"We've talked around it," he said. He was at the table with his coffee. "We haven't talked about the specific risk of a woman with a company and a teaching position and a life she's built walking into the orbit of a man who has been invisible to the FBI for fifteen years."
"I'm not walking in anywhere," she said. "Carrie is mapping the architecture. We're going quiet. You were there when we decided."
"I was," he
