By late morning, the air in the suite had shifted.The soft gold of sunrise had faded to a colder daylight, filtered through heavy curtains. The scent of coffee lingered, but the warmth was gone. Lily was resting in the bedroom, finally drifting into a shallow sleep after hours of restless silence.Alex Knight sat in the living area, phone pressed to his ear, the cold light of his laptop screen reflecting in his eyes.“Run it again,” he said, voice low and controlled. “From 8:47 to 8:53. All camera angles.”The voice on the other end belonged to security operations, the hotel’s top-level staff — the kind of men who usually dealt with stolen property or high-profile privacy disputes, not what Alex was describing.“Yes, sir,” came the muffled reply. “But as I mentioned, Mr. Knight, the system shows a temporary feed loss. It—”“Run. It. Again.”The words were quiet. Deadly calm.The man obeyed.Alex’s hand tightened around the phone as he watched the grainy black-and-white footage flicke
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