Andrea stared blankly, trying to process what she had just heard.
Kyle appeared to be equally dumbfounded. "Wait, you're saying Walker was murdered?"
"That's exactly what I'm saying," replied Bob.
Andrea had told herself that Simon's death wasn't her fault. Intellectually, she knew that she wasn't responsible, that nothing she did had been unreasonable, that she had given him every chance to talk to her in their last meeting. Any disciplinary measures had been his firm's doing; she hadn't been vindictive, the consequences were his own…
And yet… It was hard to ignore the feeling that she should have done something differently. She'd been one of the last people to talk to him, and it certainly felt like that altercation had been what led to…
And now Bob was telling them that someone else had been the direct cause of Simon's death.
