You Fired a Tech Genius novel · Chapter 19 of 32

Chapter 19: The Night Before

It rained on the thirtieth of October.

By ten at night the printing house on West Fulton was empty except for the server fans, and the two of us.

I had spent the week moving grocers off Ledgerline one store at a time.

I slept on a couch in the back and walked past Zoe's glass office without knocking.

She had spent it saying "Good morning" and "Send me the numbers" and nothing else.

On Wednesday I had sent my signed statement to the state attorney general, and she had read it first.

She had not said a word about it.

I was reading the last of the day's migrations on a laptop when her door opened.

"Come here," Zoe said.

I went.

She was standing at the window with the blinds half open on the rain.

Her coat was off, and she wore a white shirt with the sleeves rolled to the elbow.

I stopped a few feet away.

"I read it," she said. "What you gave the state. Your name in the first line, no lawyer, no deal."

"It's the truth."

"It could put you in a courtroom."

"It might."

"Nobody made you."

"Nobody had to," I said.

She turned around.

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