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CHAPTER TWO HUNDRED AND NINETY-SIX
An anonymous message was sent on Monday morning.Robert was at his office. Outside was a grey December morning as the city did its business. Clara was dropped off at Sandra's for the day. Roxanne felt at ease with Pius. Robert came in at the board communication which lasted four hours and he had decided that it was the right amount of time away from the penthouse at the time.His phone rang at nine forty.An unknown number.He looked at it.He opened it.There was an image inside. Two pages of financial records shown in a photo. He looked at them. Transaction records. Private practice in medicine. Two payments over a four week period. A date.He read the date.He read the reference code.He placed the phone face down on the desk.He sat for a while.He picked it up again.He studied the records more closely. About the information that was contained in them, and the information that was not contained in them. They were partial. Two pages of a larger document, which appears to be a pape
CHAPTER TWO HUNDRED AND NINETY-FIVE
Phillip's visit report was received by Leonard on a Thursday.Not directly. The specific layered communication system that survived the network seizure due to its existence below the seized network. A normal legal letter, which had a secret message underneath it, about what Phillip had found and what he did with it.Leonard read it twice.He was in his cell. Morning. The facility is doing its routine around him on Thursday. Meals. Movement. A specific tempo, created for a space, to strip out chaos from the day.He placed the message on the table.He gazed up at the ceiling.He pondered on what Phillip had discovered.Two payments to a private medical practice. A four-week window. The reference period was comparable to the financial structure of that time. The different meaning of follow-up care, not a single procedure.He thought about the implications of that.He began considering Mendes and what Mendes had told Carver, and whether Mendes had been telling the whole story.He thought
CHAPTER TWO HUNDRED AND NINETY-FOUR
Phillip found the timeline discrepancy on a Wednesday afternoon.He was still going through the storage box. His lawyer had asked for the cataloguing to be done and it had been going on for weeks. Systematic. He spent one day on each folder. He was disciplined on it, Until Wednesday, he had found something significant.The folder was not as thick as most. Eight pages. Corporate financial records pertaining to financial activity associated with Maxime. He had previously noticed such folders in the box, and had catalogued and turned them over to his lawyer without special notice.This one was not the same.There was one new transaction record on page four. A payment from one entity to another medical practice. The time was defined. It was a small sum. In a similar fashion to the way some sensitive transactions were redacted in these financial records, the reference code on the transaction was partially redacted.He glanced at the date.He was gazing at it for a long time.Then he went t
CHAPTER TWO HUNDRED AND NINETY-THREE
The peace came without announcement.Not as a finality or a resolution or a definite end to something building up. It was merely one of those things that took up residence in the penthouse in those first weeks of December when the home found its perfect complement of people.The morning light that Robert had spotted months earlier, when he stood in the doorway with a measuring tape, the focused energy of a man making plans. He was in the guest room with Pius. The light streamed through the east window at six in the morning and was very slow to move across the room and passed through quietly by Pius and passed through all of it in complete way.On the second morning Clara found her brother at home.She was at the edge of the cot and was watching him.With the full appraisal she brought to the new things in her world, she looked at him for a long time.Then she looked at Robert.She said daddy.He crouched down by her side.She indicated with her finger to Pius."Pius," Robert said.Cla
CHAPTER TWO HUNDRED AND NINETY-TWO
At eight thirty, Dave arrived at the hospital.He had already been responsible for the emergency board communication from the office, and had taken three investor calls that had been called into his attention, and drove to the hospital when the building was able to operate without him for the evening.He found Robert in the hall outside Roxanne's room.When he came around the corner, Robert looked at him.Dave glanced at Robert's face.He stopped walking.He had seen this face in many of Robert's forms for eighteen years. The professional version. The composed version. The one that came when it was hard when things were at their worst. The one after Clara's birth when there was a fundamental change in him.This was a new version for Dave.Not the overwhelmingness of Clara's birth. Something quieter than that. Something which had come to rest instead of landing. A man who has possessed something that transforms his understanding about what he was guarding and is now situated in a corri
CHAPTER TWO HUNDRED AND NINETY-ONE
Roxanne's labour started Tuesday afternoon at two forty.She was at her office. A client meeting. She felt it as the senior partner across her was in the middle of a sentence. She wasn't going to interrupt him. She waited for him to complete his statement. She glanced at the clock on the wall behind his head.She waited two minutes.She felt it again.She excused herself with the full professional detachment she displayed in all her actions, and headed for her office and dialed Robert's phone number.He picked up on the first ring."It has started," she said. “I'm at the office, contractions are happening but they are still not close.”“I am coming now," he said."Robert," she said. “There is no rush, drive carefully.”He said once more, "I'm leaving now.”She could hear his movements. In the background, she heard Dave's voice asking something. She heard Robert's answer which was two words and the door.She called Sandra.Before Roxanne could finish her sentence, Sandra answered and s
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