he sat there for about forty minutes.
And what he was working out was not how to tell me.
It was how to explain the eleven months.
Because the day the letter arrived, the thing he had been protecting me from stopped being the suspension and became the lying.
He said: I had something I could survive telling you in March. By January I didn’t.
PART 4
And that is why Cassian was crying in a hospital corridor in front of twenty people.
Because Soren put it in writing. Three times. About the staffing on those weekend rotas, before any of it happened.
The November before. The January. And eleven days before the Saturday.
And the person he sent all three of those letters to was Cassian.
Head of department.
He did not pass them up. Not out of malice — I have had this explained to me twice and I
