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CHAPTER TWO HUNDRED AND FORTY-EIGHT
On a Tuesday afternoon, Phillip gave the order to destroy the DNA materials.Carver had already burnt it in front of him at the private club, weeks before. The instruction that Phillip provided today was in a different way. A written, formal, final release in writing and in his own words, to the federal prosecutors that the material no longer existed and that he was waiving any right or future use of anything derived from the material.His lawyer read the thing to him."This ends this thread entirely. Any doubt is gone on the matter of the material or your intentions with it.” The lawyer said,"Good," Phillip said.He signed it.The lawyer took it and looked at Phillip for a second."There's something else.” the lawyer said. “Carver's last words to prosecutors. When the viable material is achieved he started arranging for definitive testing with a private laboratory before you ordered him to destroy it.” He paused. “The testing was never finished but it was set up.”Phillip looked at
CHAPTER TWO HUNDRED AND FORTY-SEVEN
Marcus called Robert at six Am on a Wednesday.Robert was awake already. He was at the kitchen island with his coffee when his phone rang. He answered immediately.“The coalition acquisitions,” Marcus said. “The pattern chnaged. New positions are being monitored weekly by Brighton's team”."Changed how?" Robert said.“They stopped growing,” Marcus said. “No new minority positions in the last five days, rather consolidating around existing minority positions.” He paused. “Not the infrastructure of Zenco, specifically the parts of the business that relate to your public profile and your reputation.”Robert set his cup of coffee on the table."The partners of the employee wealth program.” He said, “The committee testimony by the international committee and the renewable infrastructure expansion.”“Those just exactly,” Marcus said. “The coalition has built itself up around the parts of the business which are most tied up in your public image and not your business operations.”Robert gazed
CHAPTER TWO HUNDRED AND FORTY-SIX
Robert discovered the photographs on Sunday evening.He wasn't expecting them. He was at his desk reading the routing data update Carlisle sent at four PM. Clara was asleep. When it was time to prepare for the week ahead, Roxanne was in the other room with her laptop and the faintly focused energy she brought to Sunday evening work.He completed updating the routing information. He put it down. He took out his tablet.He was supposed to have read a message sent to the board by Marcus on Friday afternoon. He opened the tablet and the screen showed the last thing he had been viewing before he put it down the previous Thursday evening.A video of Clara at 6 weeks old. Then, Roxanne carrying her on the kitchen island while Robert took the picture from across the room. Clara's face is that of a child that young definitely in the specific unfocused way. Roxanne talking to her in the low warm voice that she had when it was only the two of them.He viewed the video.He did not lay the tablet
CHAPTER TWO HUNDRED AND FORTY-FIVE
It was a Monday afternoon that Dave confronted Phillip.He hadn't told Robert that he was leaving.He'd been thinking about telling him. He picked up his phone twice on Sunday evening, putting it down both times. Not because he wasn't telling the truth. He wanted to see Phillip first of all. He wanted to read the man first before he came to speak to Robert. He found himself more knowledgeable about Phillip after months of keeping his distance, than he was to anything he had read about him.He drove his car to the estate.It was a big estate. The kinds of things that had been important in previous chapter of Phillip Jackson's life, and had the particular character of a space that had endured the significance that had attached to it. Well maintained. Empty of purpose.A housekeeper came to the door.Dave gave his name.He waited for four minutes in a hall.Phillip came down.He was significantly older than Dave had thought of. No older than his age. Older meaning that someone who has be
CHAPTER TWO HUNDRED AND FORTY-FOUR
Roxanne accepted the international brand partnership on a Wednesday morning.The announcement was made through her firm's professional channels and her social media at the same time at nine AM. Clean. Specific. Her own words, not the words of a press release by another person about another person's decision.The coverage began at ten AM.It became noticeable by noon.Dave observed it through his window and called Marcus. Marcus had already been looking at it. They spoke for four minutes and agreed the coverage trajectory was positive and that there wasn't a thing Zenco had to add to the news at all.Robert witnessed it in a meeting he was at with the renewable infrastructure team. His phone was on the table and at ten fifteen, Claire knocked and she was in with one printed page placed in front of him. The coverage summary was included on the page. Robert viewed it for three seconds and set it face down and returned to the meeting.He gave a call to Roxanne at twelve thirty from his of
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Phillip got a letter on a Friday morning.Not returned unopened. Returned with a handwritten note attached. Two sentences in Robert's handwriting on a card that had been placed on top of the sealed letter Phillip had written three weeks ago and sent through his lawyer.Phillip sat at his desk and read the two sentences.I've gotten your letter. I will read it when the legal process has been concluded and not before that time.He read it twice.He put it down.He glanced at the card in Robert’s handwriting. At the special economy of it. Two sentences that said everything and more. Not warmth. Not hostility. Just a line that is carefully and simply described.He thought about it.He thought about Robert writing back to him. That he did not just get his lawyer to send the letter back without taking any action. That he had taken a card and written two sentences on it and sent it back.He went back to pick up the card.He sat with it for a long time.Eleanor came in.She read the card that
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