AMELIAThe security room sat in the basement behind a steel door that opened only for a thumbprint, and in seven years under this roof I had never been allowed past it.Eight screens glowed along one wall, each showing a piece of the house: the front gate, the garden, the kitchen door, the ballroom with its floor bare and shining now. A young technician named Teo rolled his chair aside when Rico came in, and Rico took his place without a word and began to type."Start at ten," Luca said. He stood behind the chair with his arms crossed, and I stood beside him, because he had asked me to and because there was nowhere else for my hands to be."Ballroom, 10:06." The screen showed the gala as a crowd of crimson masks and black suits, so tightly packed that I couldn't pick out a single face. Then Rico zoomed in on the champagne tower, where a heavy gray-haired man stood beside a woman in an ivory gown and a white porcelain mask. They were speaking, and I could
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