Chapter 52 The Gala
The Vane Sports Group Foundation Gala had always been, in ordinary years, a fairly unremarkable fixture of the company's charity calendar — champagne, silent auctions, a few speeches nobody fully listened to. This year, it doubled as the most carefully engineered trap any of us had ever helped build...
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Chapters
1. Chapter 1 Hands That Don't Shake
2. Chapter 2 The Report
3. Chapter 3 The Twelfth Floor
4. Chapter 4 What the File Doesn't Say
5. Chapter 5 Seven A.M.
6. Chapter 6 What Jake Saw
7. Chapter 7 What the Plate Found
8. Chapter 8 The Cousin's Game
9. Chapter 9 The Bennett Family Table
10. Chapter 10 Kennedy's Question
11. Chapter 11 The Pattern
12. Chapter 12 The Easy Kind of Quiet
13. Chapter 13 He Knows
14. Chapter 14 The Name on the Page
15. Chapter 15 What His Father Signed
16. Chapter 16 The Cousin's Move
17. Chapter 17 On the Ice
18. Chapter 18 The Envelope
19. Chapter 19 Small Mercies
20. Chapter 20 The Board
21. Chapter 21 What Neither of Us Said
22. Chapter 22 The Name Behind the Name
23. Chapter 23 Diane
24. Chapter 24 The Second Mother
25. Chapter 25 The Confrontation
26. Chapter 26 Too Close
27. Chapter 27 What I Could Tell Her
28. Chapter 28 Okafor
29. Chapter 29 Where I Slept
30. Chapter 30 The Audit Report
31. Chapter 31 The Countdown
32. Chapter 32 What Carl Wanted
33. Chapter 33 The Missing Files
34. Chapter 34 Faster Than Ready
35. Chapter 35 The Assistant
36. Chapter 36 What I Had to Tell Him
37. Chapter 37 Cornered
38. Chapter 38 The Night Before
39. Chapter 39 What Went Public
40. Chapter 40 Gone
41. Chapter 41 The Search
42. Chapter 42 The Name From Before
43. Chapter 43 What He Wanted All Along
44. Chapter 44 Steady Ground
45. Chapter 45 Found
46. Chapter 46 What Jake Already Knew
47. Chapter 47 The Manhunt
48. Chapter 48 The Package
49. Chapter 49 The Trap
50. Chapter 50 What He Anticipated
51. Chapter 51 The Plan
52. Chapter 52 The Gala
53. Chapter 53 What Jake Did
54. Chapter 54 The Man on the Ground
55. Chapter 55 What Almost Was
56. Chapter 56 What Cho Knew
57. Chapter 57 The Offer
58. Chapter 58 Priya
59. Chapter 59 What She Said
60. Chapter 60 What Remained
61. Chapter 61 What the Public Saw
62. Chapter 62 Rehabilitation
63. Chapter 63 Opening Statements
64. Chapter 64 Cross-Examination
65. Chapter 65 Recess
66. Chapter 66 The Source
67. Chapter 67 Diane's Testimony
68. Chapter 68 Closing Arguments
69. Chapter 69 The Verdict
70. Chapter 70 What Came After
71. Chapter 71 Opening Day
72. Chapter 72 The Guest List
73. Chapter 73 Marisol
74. Chapter 74 What Priya's Sentence Meant
75. Chapter 75 The Wedding
76. Chapter 76 The Honeymoon
77. Chapter 77 Marcus Webb
78. Chapter 78 Beyond Vane Sports Group
79. Chapter 79 Jake's Turn
80. Chapter 80 What Marisol Said
81. Chapter 81 The Conversation
82. Chapter 82 Telling Brian
83. Chapter 83 The First Setback
84. Chapter 84 What Fear Taught Her
85. Chapter 85 The Weight of Wanting
86. Chapter 86 What Priya Once Said
87. Chapter 87 What Kind of Father
88. Chapter 88 Jake and Marisol
89. Chapter 89 The Test
90. Chapter 90 Telling Everyone
91. Chapter 91 The First Ultrasound
92. Chapter 92 What Comes Next
93. Chapter 93 The Anatomy Scan
94. Chapter 94 The Board
95. Chapter 95 Chloe
96. Chapter 96 Third Trimester
97. Chapter 97 The Shower
98. Chapter 98 The Scare
99. Chapter 99 The Doctor's Tough Decision
100. Chapter 100 Yaay, the Baby is Here!!
101. Chapter 101 Little things matter
102. Chapter 102 What the night teaches
103. Chapter 103 An unexpected visitor
104. Chapter 104 Two kinds of work
105. Chapter 105 First light
106. Chapter 106 Between yesterday and now
107. Chapter 107 Small victories
108. Chapter 108 The second arrival
109. Chapter 109 Meaningful/meaningless vows
110. Chapter 110 The harder cases
111. Chapter 111 Best left unresolved
112. Chapter 112 The whole of it
113. Chapter 113 The Arithmetic of Hope
114. Chapter 114 What the Senator Asked
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