Chapter 103 Startling Revelation

(Jack)

I wondered if Thomas already knew everything that I had meant to tell him. If he did, I did not think that he should be driving right now. Because what I had uncovered yesterday was too horrifying to be shared under casual circumstances. I had been meaning to talk to Thomas about it, but he had been preoccupied first with his date with Lydia and then with the aftermath of it.

I had not even, in fact, shared this information with Ruby yet.

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Matthew had had a very worried look on his face when he had sat down with me in the conference room yesterday.

“Tobacco?” I had asked, extending my box.

He had hesitated but then took one.

With the cigarette shaking in his quivering gingers, Matthew had set his palms down on the table and then looked up at me.

“It happened four years ago,” he said to me, “I had just graduated and was working as an engineer at an oil and gas organization. I understood a lot about automobiles and people frequently started coming up to me and asking for ad