CHAPTER 12: AFTER

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Three days of quiet. I didn't know what to do with it. The hotel room was fine. Clean sheets. Room service. A window that looked out over a street where nothing happened. Normal things. I kept waiting for my phone to go off. It didn't. On the third morning I sat at the small desk with a coffee and opened my laptop for the first time since the island. My inbox was a disaster. Four hundred and twelve unread emails. Most of them junk. Some of them not. A journalist from a Boston paper wanting a comment on the Hayes arrests. Two from law firms offering representation. One from a woman named Dana Reeves. Subject line: I heard you might be able to help. I almost skipped it. I didn't. She'd written three paragraphs. Careful ones. Like she'd rewritten them several times before sen

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