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Chapter 5

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The officers read Naomi her rights in the foyer, beneath the Rothko print I'd bought at auction five years ago. She didn't struggle. She didn't cry. She stood perfectly still, chin raised, and let them cuff her with the quiet dignity of someone who had rehearsed this possibility.