Renner's office looked the same as it always did, cluttered with unopened correspondence and lit by a single steady lamp. He looked up when Mercer entered, and something in his face shifted the moment he saw the leather ledger tucked under Mercer's arm.
"You found it," Renner said quietly.
"You knew where it was."
"I knew she'd hidden it somewhere safe. I never asked where, and she never told me. Some secrets are safer shared as little as possible." Renner set down his pen and folded his hands. "I take it you've read enough of it to have questions."
"I have one question." Mercer set the ledger on the desk between them, open to the first page. "D.C. Is that you."
Renner looked at the initials for a long moment. Something in his composed features finally cracked, a weariness surfacing t
