I NEED YOU, ELENA
A simple swipe, and the security feed flickered to life, the screen illuminating the dim room.
The footage played before me—Elena slipping out of the house, glancing around in the darkness, her movements careful but not careful enough. Evelyn was waiting for her, hands gripping the steering wheel, her expression tense with determination.
Predictable.
Naïve.
I pressed a button, sending a silent alert to the men stationed nearby.
Let them run.
Let them think they were free.
For now.
Because freedom, for Elena, had never been real.
She might have felt it once. Might have believed it existed in some distant, unreachable reality.
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