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Nicholas Boothman
“Because I helped Cerulean bury forty-seven deaths. And when the woman who tried to stop them called me complicit, I couldn’t argue with her.”
Claire nodded slowly.
“The chief engineer?”
“You know about her?”
“I read the article. I pay attention to things that matter.” She leaned back. “So what now?”
“I don’t know exactly.”
“That’s the first believable thing you’ve said.”
He looked at the table.
“I keep thinking there has to be a way to stop people like me.”
Claire’s expression hardened.
“People like you?”
“People who know how to make truth disappear.”
“You mean liars.”
“Yes.”
“Say it properly.”
Henry looked up.
“Liars.”
She held his stare.
“Good. Keep going.”
He reached for the wine, then thought better of it.
“The world runs on evasion,” he said. “Not just big lies. Small ones. Legal ones. Polite ones. The kind nobody
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