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came out steady, surprisingly so.
“I don’t know.”
Mildred lowered the phone.
“But she mentioned the plan being in motion and Christopher being on board. Those were her exact words.”
I looked at her directly.
“Why did you do this? Risk your career for a stranger?”
Something flickered across her face, old pain, barely healed wounds.
“My father, three years continue reading …
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