THE BODYGUARD’S HIDDEN TRUTH
We left within minutes, the exposition abandoned mid-thread, Reyes’s laptop still open on the table as four of us piled into the car, Ethan driving faster than strictly legal, all of us silent with the particular dread of racing toward a threat we couldn’t yet see clearly.
Elsewhere, in a hospital corridor two floors above the room we were speeding toward, a woman in a borrowed nurse’s cardigan walked calmly toward the exit stairwell, her expression composed, unhurried, giving nothing away to the staff who passed her without a second glance.
She had learned, a lifetime ago, exactly how to be forgettable.
In her pocket, her phone buzzed once — a message from an unlisted number, brief and clin