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“And your boss? Who is it?”

Lana sighed “Todd Mitcherson”

“Senator Mitcherson?” My voice cracked

“I take it you know him” She stared at me blankly

“He’s a US senator” I tried to keep ment off my lips Keep it hidden that I knew exactly who he was The man Preston worked for

“Yes He is And he shouldn’t have fired me”

“I think I need you to start at the beginning The very beginning”

There was a weariness that had settled intothe tendons with snaps of fatigue They ached fro over my arm and started down the stairs outside the clinic If I rushed, I could make the last shuttle back to the Metro

I didn’t like walking on caht by ed forward It ree The ones where safety officers would fill an auditoriuirls and tell us how to avoid an unwanted attack As if there was any other kind They would tell us to alalk together Check in with your buddy If you saw someone suspicious, don’t irls to attend, but I didn’t re about how not to attack women Keep you dicks in your pants and your hands to yourself I scowled,forward I didn’t want to miss that bus

Mrs Foley was the first of twenty woo an entire we

ek at the private practice without seeing that many clients

I hustled toward the stop at the corner feeling part super woman and part exhausted

The driver nodded without s as I climbed onboard and took the first seat I was a little nervous walking through the Metro station at night alone, but I was only one stop away frohborhood Women in the city did this all the time

I thought about the women today What they dealt with The decisions they ht them to my office The faith they had put in people who let the There weren’t enough of us fighting to help them Today I had worked with twenty, but if Addie had been there, ould have helped forty And if one more attorney had been added to the clinic it would have been sixty There was no stopping the hee

My fingers touched the top of the ot about the woht I sth