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"Others?" we all asked together

Silver stood, slowly and stiffly, and walked to the box He took out a sheaf of papers

"These are from a woo She worked for the old co And she’s the only person I knoho stayed on after corporate changed hands For the few years I worked for the new co cah her"

Ryu took the papers "And?"

"Brenda and I worked for years together She was always in and out of Boston on business, and we spent a lot of tiether We… we had an affair, briefly But even after the affair, we stayed friends We trusted each other, and she hadBut we had a falling out over the new administration after I was fired I wanted her to tellto Conleth and she refused She was ambitious… Anye lost touch Which is why I was so surprised to get that first e-mail, there" Silver pointed to the paper on top of the stack "She sounded so scared That came about a week after Conleth escaped"

"Is that why you went into hiding?" Ryu asked

"I didn’t knohat Con would do when I knew he’d escaped So yes, I hid from Con at first But he only killed people from after my time There are tons of employee files I have there, in that box The people ith Conleth fro, but ere fired by the new administration, are still alive I’ve checked up on them So at first I hid from Conleth, yes But then I hid because of what Brenda told me in those e-mails"

"Which is?" Ryu pro isn’t right, asking me questions about who and what Conleth could have known about people in corporate I tell her that he couldn’t have known anything, unless things had changed that e Hell, I didn’t even know anything about who had taken over, and I was at the top in Boston She e- was happening, and she’d just been overtired Then she starts writing h the papers, nodding at Silver’s words

"Brenda writes to tell me that her e-mail is monitored and so are her phones Hence the letters She tellsThat they’re showing up dead Burned She asks o, orked with her in corporate

"But he couldn’t have," Silver insisted "Everything was set up so it went through Brenda andcould be traced, and Brenda was the buffer keeping evenI know because I tried like hell to find out more about that coot so could be discovered Nothing"

"But you’d been replaced," Ryu interjected, gently "Maybe things had changed"

"Bullshit," Silver swore "There’s no way a company puts thatinvisible just to rip off the veil one day"

"What happened to Donovan?" Ryu asked

"Last page," Silver said "The photo"

The photo showed a picture very similar to the ones Ryu had shown me at the laboratory Dr Donovan was dead, her body burned

"You’re sure it’s her?" Ryu asked

"Dental records," was the only response

"When was this? And where?"

"Right after Conleth killed his fao"