For Nearly 3 Hours, a Stranger Kept Touching My Leg on the Bus—Then, Just Before We Got Off, He Slipped Me a Handkerchief and Whispered, “Pretend You’re Dizzy—Don’t Sign Anything.”

gray cloth given to me by the stranger on the bus, lay on the desk right beside Julian’s leather bound notebooks.

Marcus Vance. The man on the bus.

Suddenly, the heavy brass doorknob of the office rattled.

I slammed the laptop screen shut, grabbed the flash drive, and shoved the notebooks into my leather tote bag just as the door swung open.

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