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Working at CI gave her a grounding that she needed. Grant let her peruse the Game Time paperwork, but as soon as she opened the file, she wished she hadn’t. She was only wading deeper into a mess she couldn’t clean up. Distracting herself with the documents, Zara chose not to focus on the unknowns, but to focus instead on learning as much as she could.
Dinner with Grant filled in plenty of blanks about uses and applications. But she still speculated about the motives of each prospective buyer while her mind kept wandering back to the possibility of Brodie’s involvement in Quebec. Grant seemed adamant that Brodie was the only one who would be motivated to do such a thing.
Internally admitting that she’d been swept into the fantasy of Brodie, she chastised herself for bei
