PART 19: I need to be in my kitchen while it happens. I need something that’s mine and not. She gestured vaguely at the space around them,…

PART 18: She kept her hands flat on the table. Don’t let him make it. Caruso was quiet for a long time, long enough that the light…

PART 17: I’m going to pretend, Patricia said slowly, that you didn’t ask me to help you bluff a federal officer. I’m asking you to set up…

PART 16: She thought about 7 months of a man building something she couldn’t see to protect someone who hadn’t asked. She thought about what it meant…

PART 15: She paused. Your father is going to escalate in the next few hours. Whatever that looks like. You need to be somewhere that isn’t reachable….

PART 14: Not the Delaware entity, the Cayman account. If he doesn’t know it exists, the drive told him where to look. If he already knows it…

PART 13: Separate federal surveillance. Ava said, “Lucien Vale has been a person of interest to two federal agencies for several years,” Patricia said without inflection. “That’s…

PART 12: And she thought about everything that lived between them. The 3 years, the seven months, the croissant because they’d run out of pain. Oo choka….

PART 11: The kind, Ava said, that show exactly who built what, and exactly whose name they put on it when they needed somewhere for it to…