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“Yuki?”

“Len”

They exchanged a very short volley of aard pleasantries, after which Parisi got to the point

“We have a suspect under arrest on Sci-Tron bo”

“I heard The science teacher”

“I need a lead ADA who thinks like I do to ith me on the trial Look, Yuki Will you come back? I need you The city needs you Tell et it for you How’s that for an easy-breezy negotiation?”

Pro: Len was going to make her lead ADA, second chair to him, on this enormous and very important trial

Con: it was going to be unrelenting, exhausting work There were soat once—the good, the bad, and the ugly Bottom line, it would be a return to a life not her own

This , as she waited in the hectic area outside Len’s office, Yuki silently continued to debate the possible outco Len out, would she be even more deterue? Or was helping Len Parisi put aan opportunity to turn down?

The frosted glass-panel office door opened, and the large, rough-looking man came toward her

She stretched out her hand to shake his, and he bent to her, hugging her so hard that her feet alround

“So good to see you, Yuki,” said Len “Please come home”

CHAPTER 24

THREE DAYS AFTER we pulled in the Ingleside Four, they were arraigned and rerand jury Their video taking responsibility as GAR had been seen throughout the USA, and therefore, their criainst theation Now, all four were fully in the hands of the federal judicial system and not in ours at all

Several rough versions of the GAR video had been filed in a folder on Yang’s co about explosives on any of the kids’ computers