Six months after David Chen was arrested and convicted for the murder of Charles Ashford, Frederick found himself in a strange position. He had finally reached a point of closure, a moment where the conspiracy and the revenge and the pain had all been resolved. Yet he felt empty, as though the journey through darkness had left him unable to fully return to the light.
Frederick was sitting in his office at the research facility when Dr. Helen Park entered with a concerned expression on her face.
"You need to take a break," Helen said without preamble. "You have been working eighteen-hour days for the past six months. You are destroying yourself."
Frederick wanted to argue, but he knew that Helen was right. The completion of the case had left him without a sense of purpose. He had spent s
