“You know she’s dangerous. You say one thing, but I can see the truth. You’re running around trying to put out fires, but you aren’t going to the source. It’s all going to blow up in your face, Noah.” He looked bewildered, haunted. A man torn apart. She recalled a phrase from her college days, in a Psych 101 course she’d taken: cognitive dissonance. Noah’s mind couldn’t allow both truths to coexist: the very people he depended upon for his son’s life were the people destroying his town and endangering his loved ones. To admit that his mentor Rosamond and his best friend Julian were corrupt was
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