THEO My mind was cloudy. Even after two weeks, the news was still playing the same story, framing it like the plot of an action-thriller movie. They were milking it at this point, but I expected nothing less from the opportunistic nature of the 24-hour news cycle. The headlines were all rehashes of each other, nothing original. Hero Senator Takes Bullet for Daughter and Unborn Grandchild. Senator Cruise’s poll numbers had never been higher. They were almost double his highest point at the start of his political career, arguably when he’d been fresh to the scene and still very popular. Now he was practically a celebrity, known throughout the entire state and the majority of the east coast as a dutiful father and upstanding citizen. His chances of winning his bid for governor were prett

