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"They won’t print anything on your word alone," I told Henry

"Whichto be the only one looking into this Our friend at the Post is already thinking of this as his Watergate"

Henry had a rare gift for sounding reasonable noht I turn your attention to the infor to barter?"

I picturedhis neck It was therapeutic, but possibly not productive Begrudgingly, I thought back over what Carson Dweck had told us about his source for the Pierce story

"I’ll tell you what I told your sister," he’d said, pointing a finger at , and that’s all I’ in my stomach, I tried not to think about the first half of that sentence

"Inside the West Wing" I focused on that part, saying the words out loud That revelation shouldn’t have been surprising Where else would a tip about the president’s plan for noht he was going to tell us the tip came from William Keyes I hadn’t even realized that hat I’d expected to find until we’d heard differently Keyes was the one who’d atte Pierce He was the one who’d arranged the Ca," Henry repeated "Thatabout the president and his immediate staff"

I was fairly certain thatabout an intern

"Even if we kneho in the West Wing had leaked the information," Henry continued, "we couldn’t rule out the possibility that the order to leak it ca The president had been at Camp David with Pierce and Vivvie’s father The president had been at the Keyes Foundation gala the night before Justice Marquette’s so-called heart attack The president’s office had leaked a story designed to build momentum for Pierce’s nomination

"Ivy cleared the president," I said abruptly Henry and I hadn’t had this conversation yet He’d been too busy ignoring me for the past few days for randfather at the gala that night, it wasn’t the president There were cameras on him practically the whole time"

Henry latched on to the salanced over at the coffee shop Vivvie was staring over at the two of us Sooner or later, I’d need to fill her in on as going on

A second later, Vivvie’s aunt turned to look our way

I grabbed Henry’s ar a smile on my face

His hand curved around my shoulder in response "I always look natural"

We started walking Vivvie’s aunt turned back around, but Henry didn’t drop his arm from my shoulder "Did it ever occur to you," he said to ht not have to do his own dirty work? Even if you believe that he didn’t poison randfather, that doesn’t ic could apply to Williaraph, or anyone else at Caraph

I said as much

"Who else was there?" Henry asked me

I didn’t kno many other people had been there--but I knew that Ivy had been I couldn’t tell Henry that Not with the way he felt about my sister