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Ivy talks to the Secret Service about Vivvie’s father Vivvie’s father is immediately taken out of the picture I saw the connection with hindsight Ivy

"She suspected it was a Secret Service agent, and she didn’t tell the president?" I asked

"She didn’t tell the president because she suspected it was a Secret Service agent," Adaet alone, and even if shein private, she was fairly certain that the person ere looking for knew that ere digging If Ivy ed at all" Ada to take"

"What about the pardon? You weren’t surprised when I said Kostas was the one who took me, and you weren’t surprised when I said he asked for a pardon"

Adam and Bodie were silent

"A pardon for who? For what?" As the questions left my mouth, I became more and more certain that they knew the answers

"He took me," I said lowly "Ivy is ht start shaking, but et to keep me out of this," I said

After a moment, Adam stood and left the room When he came back, he had a thick file in his hand "Ivy flen to Arizona to look for a connection between Judge Pierce and soence community She came back with detailed information about Pierce’s docket Cases he’d heard Cases he was scheduled to hear Appeals"

"She found a connection?" I knew, even as I asked the question, that the ansas yes She was Ivy Kendrick Of course she found the connection

Adam handed me the file "It’s a death penalty case Defendant was nineteen when the crime was committed, with a history of traumatic brain injury There’s a question about whether he was mentally competent to stand trial at all"

I opened the file The defendant’s na any bells, but when I saw his picture, ht in my throat The eyes The set of his features

"Kostas?" I asked

"His son," Bodie confirmed "From e can tell, Kostas didn’t even know the kid existed until the ht of Kostas saying that Vivvie’s father had no honor I thought of the way he’d spoken of people who killed for money, or for power I’d wondered what he had killed for, and now I knew

"He letto, but when Ivy told hihter--"

She’d asked hio