“Everything you needed to destroy,” I said, “was never in that room.

And everything I needed to destroy you, you handed to me yourself, the moment you walked through my door.”

Chapter 18 — You Mistook My Silence for Weakness

“You,” Julian said, and his voice cracked, and something feral came into his face.

“You set us up!” He took a step toward me, and instantly two federal agents moved, taking him to the carpet and drawing his arms behind his back and closing steel handcuffs over his wrists.

I did not step back.