CHAPTER 73"My office.""Stay there. Don't talk to anyone. Don't sign anything. I'm coming.""It's not necessary that..." she began, pride flickering faintly."I'm coming," he repeated, an order that went unchallenged, and the line went dead.Twenty minutes later, he was walking toward his office, ignoring a flustered Claire. She didn't seem to have slept either. He closed the door softly behind him, his eyes immediately finding the letter on his desk.He didn't go with her. He went to the letter, picking it up and reading it with a terrifying, focused stillness. When he finished, he carefully and deliberately put it back."That's how she starts," he said, his voice a low, gravelly rumble. Finally, he looked at her, and the anguish in his eyes mirrored her own. "The first move is never directly at you. It's at the foundation. At what you love most. She wants you to be reactive. Scared. Stupid. She wants you to make mistakes out of fear, so you hand her the knife for the next cut."His
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