Nothing Left To Save
I had just climbed into the armored SUV leaving the Moretti estate when the gatekeeper hurried after me with a black encrypted phone in his hand.
"Mrs. Westmore, Don Moretti asked me to give you this."
I took it. One unread message glowed on the screen.
[Selena only had a scare. I'll come home tomorrow. Don't overthink it.]
I stared at it for two seconds, popped out the SIM card, snapped it in half, and tossed it into the rain outside the window.
The next day, I had just reached the abandoned shipyard in North Harbor when encrypted messages started hitting my backup phone one after another.
[Vivian, where are you?]
[Why aren't you home? Where the hell did you go this late?]
[Answer me. Don't