“Where were you when the accident happened?” Stratt said. He paused. “Where were you?” she repeated. “I was in Monaco. On a vacation.” “You’d been there for three months on that vacation. Gambling away your embezzled money.” “I…have a gambling problem,” he said. “I admit that. I mean, it was gambling debt that made me embezzle in the first place. It’s a sickness.” “And what if you had been doing your job instead of going on a bender for three months? What if you’d been there the day the accident happened? Would the accident still have happened?” His expression was answer enough. “Okay,” Stratt
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