Owned In Silence
It would have to wait, because if he examined it too closely right now, everything he had built would come apart.
Through the wall, muffled by stone and plaster and the architecture of a building designed to keep secrets, he heard Emeric's voice again, low and alone, speaking on the phone to someone whose name Tobin could not catch. The words were indistinct, but the tone was different from the one he had used with Nikolai. There was no authority in it, no blade, no careful control. It sounded, if Tobin was not mistaken, like exhaustion.
And underneath the exhaustion, barely audible through the ductwork and the distance and the layers of performance that both of them wore like armour, Tobin
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