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Tom’s worst fear was that Paul would pick up something up with his sixth sense which, according to Paul, he had become renowned for within the agency.
If he confessed to everything now, he might still be able to recruit Paul to assist him in getting rid of Vlad. He could just come clean about the whole business of affairs and extortion, resign from the taskforce and go back to his business.
People would recognise him at first but that would soon subside, and he would become another anonymous suit walking through revolving doors into merchant banks and insurance companies. The fraud guy. Well, he was a fraud, wasn’t he? Then his life could go back to fraud investigations and spending more time with his kids. He could live a comfortable life with Vic and the girls and teach his son to
