CHAPTER TWENTY FOUR
8:15 a.m.
Newark International Airport – Newark, New Jersey
“Next up, we’ve got a breaking story with possible bombshell news about the husband of the President of the United States.”
The woman sat slumped on a bench near the gate, staring mindlessly up at the overhead TV set. Her flight was already delayed half an hour, and it could only get worse from here.
She was a young mother with two young children. She was tired, and this was not her idea of fun. She had awakened at 3 a.m. in her home in Burlington, Vermont. Without waking her husband (who had to work today), she had climbed out of bed, gotten the girls ready, packed up and taken the cab to the airport. They caught the 6:15 flight down here to Newark, then raced through the airport to their next gate.
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