She placed the pen down, slid the documents back across the table, and looked at Ethan one final time.
“It’s done. You’re free.”
Ethan smiled with visible satisfaction.
“Good. At least you know your place.”
Vanessa clapped her hands together lightly with a small laugh.
Emily stood, picked up her bag, and turned toward the door.
That was when they heard it — the slow, deliberate scrape of a chair from the back of the room.
The Man No One Had Noticed
Every person in that room turned at the same moment.
A man in a charcoal gray suit rose from a chair near the back wall. He moved with the unhurried, measured calm of someone who had never once in his life needed to raise his voice to be taken seriously.
The attorney recognized him first.
“Mr…. Reed?”
The name landed in the room like something heavy dropped from a great height.
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