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“Myto sip the drink the waitress had brought It was her thirdit in the ht now she just needed the oblivion She needed not to care “She was never scared of anything”

Margery sed and seemed unsure of what to say next “You know that…”

“What? Myshe had into her job at the Post She was one of their ot a vice president impeached and imprisoned”

“She also died under less than norery pointed out “You’ve said yourself a e when you were nine never made any sense”

“I know,” she said, her throat constricting at howeven after sixteen years They said her mom had committed suicide, but she knew for a fact herboth of theround twice the week before “But she did as right I know she’d be disappointed if I just nodded irl and fled to Arabian wonders”

“No one talks like that,” Margery said, chuckling “It’s not retreating or running away It’s just regrouping You can get Jackson, but you have to be smarter about it Look, if Harris didn’t believe in you and didn’t eventually want this scu out your day tomorrow at the unemployment office He didn’t do that You just have to be smart”

“Are you saying my mom wasn’t?”

“I didn’t know your ood a reporter she was, she clearly made some enemies and she left you alone too”

“Not because she wanted to,” Amanda objected

“True But intentional or not, the effects coery said “You miss her and maybe…”

“What?”

“Maybe soht”

“I owe those people, Margie They told me all their stories, all their fears, and I swore onto see that nothing got published and I’m on what looks like an all-expenses-paid vacation to the hottest resort in the world It’s not just de as hell”

“Or,” she said, sipping down the last of her drink, “you could give yourself a feeeks to take awrong with ad didn’t work on the first try There’s also nothing wrong with taking a breather”

“Yeah, but the people Jackson hurts…the countries he’s destabilized…they don’t get to have a rest”