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Chapter 4 The Gaps
thin enough to be unremarkable and heavy enough,
f discretion. He was a compact, unhurried man who had learned, over fifteen years of doing this job for wealthy, difficult people, never to editorialize until
nd
h certificate's registered, standard hospital delivery, St. Mary's. But the attending physician listed doesn
touch the folde
cords for that same week show an unusually high number of sealed files maternity ward, same period, same attending staff rotation. Four other b
ne's covering
from the same ward in the same week is either the strangest coincidence I'v
rough the
rent address doesn't exist; the trail just stops, no forwarding information, no next of kin willing to talk. And the fourth" Reeves paused, choosing his words with visible care. "The fourth mother died in a single-vehi
t wasn't an
to be honest with you, Adrian most of what I do involves errant spouses and inflated expense accounts. This isn't that. This has the shape of something
irely unremarkable to anyone who hadn't spent two sleepless nights running the dates in his head over a
s. Almost t
offee cup, anything with viable material. You wouldn't need her consent to run a private pat
o
ria
mething raw on the way out. He caught himself, exhaled, tried again more evenly
study of a man who had watched powerful people unravel before and k
e thought of the boy's face in the lobby the shape of his jaw, too young yet to have hardened into anything, but unmistakable once you knew to look. He thought of
me in five years, that mayb
ly never known
new that her new boss had gone conspicuously, unnervingly quiet since their confrontation in the lobby no summons, no further questions, not
have felt
did
an usual, watching him sleep with the specific, watchful tenderness of a mo
more to herself than to him.
asn't Adrian's questions, exactly she'd fielded worse from curious strangers over the years, people who couldn't help asking about a father-shaped absence they had no business askin
d herself that for the second time that night, and b
cked drawer forty floors abov
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