But workers should be able to go home alive.”

Vincent ended the call trembling.

It was the first time he had contradicted his father without feeling like a disobedient child.

Later, a smaller story appeared online: a photograph of Vincent applauding at a school ceremony, accompanied by an anonymous claim that he was using a fatherless child to repair his image.

He knew at once that Warren had connections capable of planting it.

But knowing wasn’t proof.