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thorough. Too t

nd scanned the exec

Rose, DOB: M

artinez Art Supplies,

n Fine Arts, graduated with honors

since 1999, declared legally dead

ection mad

ing the mother's disappearance. Six different placement

ine what that meant – being passed around,

not here for that. This wasn't about her trag

ept re

00 in student loan debt. Rents a studio apartment

erisk. I flipped to the nex

July 2014, Age

ned. Finally, s

laimed the reproductions were for "practice" and "personal use." Webb sold the forgeries as originals to private collectors. Charges against Rose wer

in my chair,

'd had some

e was proven innocent, victi

d in the court of public opinion, arres

nal Past Revealed. The board would panic. Shareholders would demand

she was innocent. The

checking in. Got the repo

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my finger tracing the words "

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y phone and

fe after the arrest. She'd rebuilt her

t successful online art gallery that ea

down and got back u

have definitel

rated by the conflicting t

d worked for. Using her past agai

s also someone who'd survive

and blamed for crime

less than two weeks ago, brea

tly, pacing t

fice view

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chosen he

h

by blood but earned through

e than credentials or pedigree. Something wo

ber. I almost didn't answer,

der Tho

ce was tight with barely controlled excitement. "I thought you sho

clenche

ract. He was ready to walk, but she... I

d not

. She might not have experience, b

ood in the dark office

lion-dollar contract on her sec

She was supposed to be crumbling und

she was s

crolling through the we

Department head reviews. Q

that would help her understand the company

ed over the sch

ut these meetings, she

m operations. The board would notice. E

lie, exactly. J

e failure of

s name from attendee lists, shifting mee

ing she could definit

ely excluded her from fifteen critic

tisfied. Victorious,

the lawyer: Per Richard's will, a reminder that both you an

ied in the will's conditions wil

afeguards, forcing us to work tog

really had thoug

time, at the photo of her young

d at the arr

credibility, or I could use it to understan

or und

uld have chosen dest

inheritance to a woman who'd sur

back into the folder and l

because I wanted to be sure, when

the elevator, exhausted in a way that

I'd excluded her from. I'd watch her scramble t