”Put her through."
My voice cuts across the room before anyone else can speak. Nathaniel is already moving, already tapping his screen, already doing that calm thing with his hands that makes everyone else look slower. He lifts the phone and puts it on speaker.
Static. A breath.
Then Evelyn's voice.
"Do not let Richard leave."
Julian stands still beside me. Not because he does not know that voice. Because he does.
Richard leans back in his chair and folds his hands as if none of this can touch him. "Dramatic as always."
"Shut up, Richard," Evelyn says through the speaker, and something sharp moves across Julian's face at the sound of it. "I am in security on level two. I have the second half of Mary's tape and the original intake slip from the night of the crash."
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