Chapter Twenty
Jia tried to not be irritated as Dr. Chen stared in complete silence at a full-sized hologram of Kevin Tomlinson.
The scientist’s pinched expression made it feel like he was annoyed they had dared show up and ask him a few questions about the man who might be harassing him.
Talking with the doctor in person might be more time-consuming, but Jia had learned in the last year that interviewing a witness face to face helped encourage the truth. Most, but not all, people had trouble looking someone in the eye and lying to them, especially the authorities.
She’d gotten around it for most of her life by not lying, but now she was carrying secrets, including Erik’s. They didn’t bother her. Announcing the existence of a deadly conspiracy to others wouldn’t help most people, it wo
