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Nicholas Boothman
“He went into cardiac arrest under questioning. The official report said natural causes. People love that phrase. It makes murder sound like weather.”
Henry sat down slowly.
“I built a machine that gave cruel men permission to believe themselves,” Jinji said. “So don’t talk to me about truth like it’s clean.”
“I wasn’t going to.”
“Yes, you were. Men like you always do.”
He looked at the closed laptop.
“What do you want?”
“I want to know if you mean it.”
“Mean what?”
“The confession.”
He didn’t answer quickly enough.
Jinji gave a small laugh.
“There it is.”
“What?”
“The pause.”
“I wrote it.”
“You saved it. That’s not the same thing.”
Henry looked toward the window. The city outside was beginning to wake.
“What are you asking me to do?”
“Bring it tonight. St. Michael’s Community Centre. George Street. Six p.m. Come alone.”
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