Chapter 21

ISABELLA"Who else has been in this room tonight?" I asked.Nobody answered right away. They looked at each other instead."Talk," I said, louder this time.Antonio moved first. He walked to the door and checked the hall. Then he pulled it shut and turned back to face us."Three people came in before Fen set up," Antonio said. "Marcos. Reyes. And Luca.""Luca has access to this floor?" Dante asked, his voice sharp and flat."He has access to the whole building," Antonio said slowly.Fen was still staring at his screen. His hands rested on the keyboard but he was not typing."Someone sat at this desk," Fen said quietly. "Someone who knew exactly which file to open and when to close it without leaving a trace.""But they did leave a trace," I said, stepping closer to him. "The timestamp.""Yes," Fen said. "Either they made a mistake. Or they wanted us to find it."I looked at the screen one more time. The name was still there. Staring back at me."Is there any way to track who accessed

Chapter 22

ISABELLA“Get Priya’s phone. Now. Before she reaches her car.” I was already moving before Chloe answered.The words came out flatter than I felt. That was the trick of it — the calmer my voice, the more everyone in the room understood how bad this was. Chloe didn’t ask why. She just pulled out her own phone and started walking backward toward the stairwell, already dialing building security.“On it,” she said. “Ground floor exit or garage?”“Both. Cover both.”I hit the elevator button four times, like that would make it faster. It didn’t. By the time I got to the lobby, Priya was already at the revolving door, coat half-on, purse over one shoulder, phone in her hand like a life raft.“Priya.”She turned, and for half a second I saw something cross her face that wasn’t surprise. It was closer to relief — the look of someone who’d been waiting for a thing to finally happen so she could stop carrying it alone. Then it was gone, replaced by something more practiced.“Isabella. I was jus

Chapter 23

RANEThe house was quiet in the particular way it only got after ten o'clock, when the staff had gone and the radiators ticked instead of talked. Rane stood in the hallway outside Mara's study with a glass of whisky he hadn't touched and a key in his pocket he'd had cut eight months ago, back when he still told himself it was for emergencies.He tried the handle first, out of some leftover instinct toward honesty. Locked."Since when do you lock your own study, Mara?" he said to the empty hallway, and didn't like how his voice sounded saying it — thin, almost hurt, like a man rehearsing a line for later.He let himself in.The desk lamp threw a cone of amber light over papers she'd left stacked with her usual precision — invoices, a printed itinerary for Geneva, a birthday card she hadn't sent yet. He wasn't looking for any of that. He was looking at the bottom drawer, the one that never used to lock, the one he'd watched her test twice last week with her thumb before glancing over he

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