His Forbidden Guard
He lay still and listened and did not know what to do with any of it and eventually, sometime around two in the morning, the footsteps above him stopped.
At the end of the hall, on the third floor, behind a door with a new deadbolt and an independently wired sensor, whatever Lissa Heyden kept in that room kept its silence.
And across the estate in her suite, Lissa slept, or did not sleep, and Daveson did not know which, and that not-knowing was its own specific, careful problem.
The next morning at breakfast, she looked at him again with that look.
He smiled at her pleasantly and asked if she wanted more coffee and she said yes and he poured it and she watched his hands while he poured it an
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