Chapter 6 - DEAR WALT
Thomas's letter was dated 1994.
Walter opened it with shaking hands.
Thomas did not accuse him of murder.
He accused him of silence.
You did not leave me in the field.
You left me when you signed what they put in front of you and never came back to ask why.
Walter stopped reading.
Daniel wanted the rest.
Walter refused.
Michael took the letter from his hand.
Walter almost fought him for it.
Then stopped.
Michael read aloud.
Thomas wrote that he had tried to contact Walter twice.
Both letters were returned.
He believed Walter had chosen his career.
Walter had never received them.
Thomas wrote about Michael but never said why he stayed away.
He wrote one strange sentence:
Robert became useful to people who needed Thomas Bennett alive and Thomas Bennett dead at the same time.
Michael asked Margaret what it meant.
She said, "I don't know."
Walter knew she was lying.
He pushed too hard.
Margaret slapped him.
Daniel nearly laughed from shock.
Margaret said, "You don't get to interrogate me like we're still thirty."
Walter apologized.
Not gracefully.
"Fine. Sorry. That was... bad."
Margaret sat down.
She revealed Voss had been feeding evacuation names to a private contractor named Alan Crewe.
Thomas obtained evidence.
After the attack, Voss offered intelligence officers a deal.
He would expose Crewe's network if they protected him.
But Voss vanished before debriefing.
Weeks later, someone using Thomas Bennett's identity appeared in Indiana.
Margaret suspected Voss.
She could never prove it.
Michael asked where the real Thomas went.
Margaret answered, "Pennsylvania."
Walter's breath caught.
"Is he alive?"
Margaret looked at him.
"No."
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This time, she had a death certificate.
