Chapter 97: SCANDAL
The photograph is everywhere by nine in the morning.
Not the photograph of Dominic kissing me in the garden, though that one is certainly circulating in enough places to constitute its own small disaster. The one that has truly detonated across every wire service and social platform by the time Liam finishes his perimeter sweep and comes back inside with his expression set in the particular flat way that means the news is already worse than whatever we are currently managing is the photograph taken the day before, through the estate's eastern treeline, showing five people entering an unmarked country property with a woman none of the press has managed to identify yet but are already calling, in bold block headline text, a mysterious contact with deep ties to the Morriston family's criminal investigation.
Eleanor, photographed entering her own home, is now being described as a person of interest in an ongoing federal case.
