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49| THE STORY THAT RAN
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Making My Ex-Husband Crawl 60| THE FORTY METRES
Dante's PovI was in position at five forty-five.The car was parked on the side street, facing the main entrance of the V. Intl building. Dark windows. Engine off. From where I sat I had a clear sightline across the forty metres of open pavement between the door and where her car would be brought around.My security lead was in my earpiece. "All positions confirmed," he said. "Building team, street team, car park team. Police are in position on the north side. Second unit on the east. The prosecutor's representative is in the command vehicle one block over.""Good," I said. "Nobody moves until I call it.""Understood," he said.I called Valerie.She picked up on the first ring. "I am on the fourth floor," she said. "Marcus is with me.""Everything looks normal on the street," I said. "Two of Ferris's vehicles are already here. One on the north side, one on the east. They arrived in the last twenty minutes.""He moved them early," she said."He is thorough when he has resources," I sa
Making My Ex-Husband Crawl 59| SETTING IT
Valerie's PovThe planning session ran three hours.Marcus, my security lead, Dante, and two people from the prosecutor's office who had been brought in the previous evening. We sat around the table in my office with maps of the building perimeter and the street layout and the car park below."The routine," the security lead said. "As it currently stands, Ms St. Claire leaves the building through the main entrance at approximately six-fifteen on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Her car is brought around from the lower level. The journey from the door to the car is about forty metres.""He knows that," I said. "The men surveying the exits last week were watching that specific window.""Yes," he said. "Which means it is where he expects to find the opportunity.""So we give it to him," I said. "On our terms.""Thursday evening," Marcus said. "We keep the routine exactly as it is on the surface. Ms. St. Claire exits at six-fifteen. The car is visible. The street looks normal.""Except for what is
Making My Ex-Husband Crawl 58| THE WEIGHT OF IT
Dante's PovShe was very still over dinner.The kind where she had put everything down and was sitting with it.I let the first twenty minutes go quietly. We ate and the city was outside and neither of us pushed the conversation anywhere it was not ready to go.Then she said, "He has a location.""Yes," I said."He has been thinking about this for a while," she said. "The conversations Webb described were not recent. He started asking those questions ten days ago. That is before the message he sent. Before the press photographs. Before the briefing.""He was planning this while he was still doing the other things," I said."The press leak was a distraction," she said. "Or a test. He wanted to see how we responded. Whether it would change our routines. Whether we would get scared and move somewhere less predictable.""We changed the routines," I said."And he already had Webb's contact speaking to Ferris by then," she said. "He was running two tracks. The visible one that we were watch
Making My Ex-Husband Crawl 57| THE MAN WHO SWITCHED
Valerie's PovHis name was Aldous Webb and he had been Cassian's operations director before Davies.He had left three years ago over a pay dispute and had held a low-level grudge ever since. Marcus had found him through a contact at the old company. He had agreed to meet, which told me the grudge was still active and looking for somewhere to go.We met in a private room at a hotel on the north side. Neutral ground with two of my security staff outside the door and Dante on a tablet propped against the wall, connected on video.Webb was a compact man in his fifties with careful eyes and the particular wariness of someone who was deciding how much to trust someone they had already decided to talk to."You reached out," I said. "Through Marcus. So start."He looked at the tablet. At Dante on the screen. "Is he recording this?" he said."Everything in this room is recorded," I said. "You agreed to that when Marcus confirmed the meeting."He nodded. He had expected it, he reached for his w
Making My Ex-Husband Crawl 56| CLOSING THE NET
Dante's PovThe security briefing ran forty minutes.I had the full team on the call. My personal protection lead, the building security manager at V. Intl, the external firm, and Carver on a separate line listening but not speaking. Four sets of eyes with different angles on the same problem."The PI Marcus identified," I said. "What do we know about his methods?""He operates on the edges," my lead said. "Registered company but no regulatory oversight. He takes jobs that licensed investigators turn down. Long-range surveillance. Identity tracing. Occasionally evidence planting, though nothing proven.""Evidence planting," I said."It has been alleged twice," he said. "Both times the cases were dropped before charges.""If he is working for Cassian, what is the most likely ask?" I said."Routine mapping," my lead said. "Identifying patterns in Ms. St. Claire's movements. Entry and exit points for key buildings. Vehicle identification. Times.""Which is consistent with the message he
Making My Ex-Husband Crawl 55| ROUTINES
Valerie's PovWe went through the message word by word the next morning.The press is only the beginning. I know your routines.Which meant either he was being deliberately vague to create maximum unease or he genuinely did not know more than that."Beginning of what?" Dante said."He did not say," I said. "Which is the point. He wants us to fill in the blank ourselves. Fear does more work when it is unspecified.""He has studied that," Dante said."He has practised it," I said. "On me. For five years. He was very good at the unnamed threat. The implication. The thing that was almost said but not quite."I looked at the message on the table between us. "He used to say things like, I would hate for people to see you the way I see you.”"And now he is doing it from a distance," Dante said."Because it is all he has left," I said. "He cannot be in the room. He cannot grab my arm in a corridor, he cannot show up at the auction. He is too visible now. So he sends a message.""The routines
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