#Chapter 220 – Jerome

Kent nods slowly, looking down at me, but his face doesn’t register any surprise. “All right,” he says, his voice even. “Where do we begin?” I frown at this, a little – it’s almost as if he was expecting this. “Why aren’t you more surprised by this?” I ask, pulling back a little. “Are you – do you have reasons to want to have a talk about Jerome too?” Kent sighs and rolls his eyes a little. “I don’t – Jerome’s been nothing but loyal to me since the day I hired him. I just met Janeen in the hall on my way here – she briefed me. Don’t read into it too much, Fay.” “Oh,” I say, tilting my head to the side, relief running through me. Because the last – the absolute last thing I want right now is to have any more reasons to suspect Jerome. But seriously – the way Jerome responded to the idea that Ivan told me to be suspicious of him… “What happened?” Kent asks seriously. Quickly, I tell him all of it – about Ivan telling me to watch out for Jerome and then Jerome’s extreme reaction when