Chapter Nine: Confusion

The flashing lights of the cameras had finally gone out into the night, leaving a silence that offered no comfort whatsoever; on the contrary, it seemed like the prelude to something much darker and more complicated than anyone could imagine.

Nathan Reed slid silently into the back seat of his black car without saying a word to anyone. When the door closed behind him with that soft but final thud, it was as if he had cut off the entire world: the shouting reporters, the b