The Lost Heiress’s Glorious Return
I said.
Marcus tapped his keyboard, pulling adjacent feeds. The figure had lingered longer than chance. Their gaze slid from the building to the street, then back again, slow and methodical.
“Not ours,” Marcus confirmed. “No ID, no comms.”
Something knotted inside me. They weren’t random.
I sent two shadow men—clean, careful. “No engagement unless they hand off something,” I ordered.
Minutes dragged. The watcher didn’t fidget, didn’t shift their weight, didn’t act like a man waiting on a cab. This was a practiced sentinel. Then, deliberate as a chess move, they started toward the service entrance where our cameras were weakest.
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