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You’ll get your et my nomination

"And the only way," Henry continued, "that Pierce could possibly be that sure was if he had someone on the inside"

The inside of the nomination process

The inside of the White House

"Ivy hasn’t told anyone," I said, thinking out loud "Not the president, not the First Lady"

Henry claht when you said that I needed to think about who I could possibly hand this inforoes as high as the West Wing, we can’t trust anyone Not the police Not the Justice Department No one"

"So where does that leave us?" I asked

Henry’s chest rose and fell slightly with each breath He was completely in control of himself in a way that he hadn’t been when he left the car "I knohere it leaves randfather before his so-called heart attack," he told o home"

CHAPTER 38

By the tiot back to Ivy’s, it was dark I let myself in the front door The entire house was lit up like a Christht

"Hello?" As much as I just wanted to make my way up the spiral staircase and cli would nored Ivy’s calls for hours on end She wasn’t going to be happy about that

"Hello?" I called a second time I walked back toward her office The sound of h the otherwise silent house Ivy’s office door was slightly ajar I pushed gently on it "Ivy?"

The door opened The office was e for an invitation I should turn around and go But I didn’t I stepped over the threshold and walked slowly toward Ivy’s desk

It had been three days since I’d told Ivy everything I knew She’d had three days to begin unraveling as going on here She’d been working, almost nonstop

The only way this plan makes any sense--the only way it could even potentially be worth the risk--is if Pierce had reason to believe he’d get the nomination

If Henry had come to that conclusion, Ivyfor the past three days? What had she discovered?

What did she know?

There was a thickin the middle of her desk I hesitated for a second or two, then reached for it Ivy wanted to keep me out of this, but I was already in too deep Henry Vivvie This wasn’t soa I saas the edge of a photo The second thing I saasOfto do with the case My breath caught in my throat I slid the photos out of the envelope There were dozens of the out of a thick braid; at sixteen, behind the wheel of Gramps’s truck; elementary school plays; middle school dances