"You… remember me."
Baylee said, her voice low and disbelieving. Her eyes, unexpectedly glassy, fixed on Cecilia. "I didn't think you would…"
"Of course I do." Cecilia opened her arms and pulled the woman into a tight, warm hug. "I won't forget you."
Cecilia had absolutely no idea who this woman was.
But AU!Cecilia did. And that was what mattered.
Thanks to her research, she had pieced together the fragments of the story that Oathran had mentioned in passing and the police report Thalia had dug up.
Around two years ago, AU!Cecilia had reported and arrested a McKing manager at lunch. It was the day Cecilia had especially investigated.
The case report, when she had finally read it, had been less helpful than she had hoped. It contained the bare facts.
The manager's name, the charges, the court notes. Justin Burke, thirty-four years old, was a manager of a McKing franchise near the Vasiliev corporate headquarters.
