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“It does to et that information some other way?”

“Don’t you want him to pay for what he did? Don’t you think he deserves to be punished for stealing? For using you?”

I took my first sip of coffee Some of the haze had cleared from my head

“I can’t believe it’s all true It’s not possible”

Greer placed a hand on“It is true It is what happened Jereain access to this apartet his hands on the information I carried with me on the defense contract coet what he wanted And he got it” She paused “And if we don’t help the authorities stop hi it Who knohat the next job will be Nuclear weapons? Information on our spies? Access to the president? It’s never-ending”

“He isn’t that kind of man”

“The ht not have been, but Jereerous calculated level You have to accept it”

I kicked s to the floor “I don’t” I stormed inside

I et dressed

I didn’t want to think about Vaughn I didn’t want to analyze the bureau’s questions There was one place I could go to escape all of that A place where wo for et back at the men who hurt them Who made them feel lesser Who used them Who punished them

I h, or Jeremy or whoever in the hell he was, but he couldn’t stopafter Senator Mitcherson and men like him

I felt bad for the cases that came across my desk today

Chapter Twenty-Five

Another week passed I called it hell Other people called it Monday through Friday I tugged onand the case load I had on Lana Foley My heels echoed in the hall I hadn’t bothered to change intoshoes when I left my office

Professor Harrison’s building was in one of the prominent parts of campus A place that was allotted for the noble For the professors who had accolades behind their names