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AN: I'll reply to reviews next time, but I'm totally exhausted just now. Hope you enjoy reading these as much as I enjoy writing them!
18
By nightfall, Peter has a plan. "We go to Nathan."
"Are you insane? Your mom lives with Nathan."
"No, it's perfect," he insists. "We tell Ma and Nathan what happened, that we think it's the Company. It'll prove we don't suspect anything, and it'll draw her out, maybe make her slip up."
It's an old pattern: Ma's hurt him again, and he needs Nathan. But this time she's hurt Claire, too.
Noah's nodding slowly. Peter can tell he likes the audacity of the plan.
"Nothing's going to happen to Claire," he promises.
Eventually, Noah and Claire agree to do it.