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“Adrian. And before you say anything, I’m not out here lusting over him. He’s just… getting in my head.” Seline raised a brow. “Adrian Vale?” Seema groaned. “See. I knew you’d judge.” “I’m not judging! I’m just saying, he’s tall, dark, successful, and fine.” “He’s still married. Still my client.” “Didn’t his wife disappear overseas and come back with a baby? Pretty sure there’s no reconciliation happening there.” “He wants us to go to Dubai.” Seline nearly choked. “Wait—what?” “I told him if he gets me R.W. Lee’s 1910 book and a 2009 bottle of Cros de Beaucastel, I might consider.”

I left the house and rode straight to Triumph Hotel. I booked a room directly across from 701. We had plenty of cameras at home. I brought a small one with me. I was going to catch them together. Ten o'clock. No one. Eleven. Midnight. Nothing was going the way I expected. I stayed up until dawn, my eyes burning. The door across the hall never opened. Chloe never showed up. Had I been wrong? Did she really not betray me? Were those messages and photos all in my head? I wasn't even thirty yet. There was no way I could be this confused.

Below him, thousands of city lights shimmered like stars trapped beneath glass. Somewhere among them, families laughed over dinner. Children finished homework. Couples argued about ordinary things. All of them depended on one invisible belief: That reality could always be proven. A photograph, receipt, message, fingerprint. A digital memory. If someone had learned to erase those things before committing a crime... ...then the rules protecting society had quietly begun to collapse. "I'll be there in forty minutes," Joel said. "We've already prepared transportation," the caller replied. Joel allowed himself the faintest smile.

I beamed. "Crazy, isn't it?" "Fucking crazy, for real." "First, we put THE DA VINCI CODE by DAN BROWN here." He picked out the book and inserted it in the center line of the shelf. He put HOW TO STOP TIME by MATT HAIG, followed by EVERGREEN by NAOMI HIRAHARA. "Then KISS THE GIRLS by JAMES PATTERSON." He put it next to the first book. "I've read that." I went on in a spur of excitement. "It's a thriller and mystery novel about a detective who's trying to track down a serial killer. So many twists and cliffhangers. Total page-turner." I giggled.