Kieran was still looking up at Dempsey — (it was strange to mentally refer to him as Dempsey, when the Minister was normally the only member of the family that Kieran even passively interacted with) — and carefully kept himself expressionles as the man went on. Blackmail, treason, espionage? Maybe this was something.

He pushed himself back from the desk. "No," he said, "Let's take the conference room."

He was going to have to use the interview as a method to figure out how Dempsey had decided on him as the relevant reporter; Kieran suspected Juliana was involved.