Chapter 73
Rylee yanked herself out of the memory, her chest heaving as she found herself back in the cold, silent hallway of Jarvis’s mind. The frustration was a physical weight. Adeline’s secrecy was legendary, but the way she had scrambled to cover that specific map proved it was the smoking gun.
She didn't waste time wandering. She marched straight back to the door she had just exited. She willed the memory to manifest as a theater rather than a mask. When she pushed the door open, the hallway didn't swallow her. Instead, she stepped into the scene as a silent, invisible phantom.
The office materialized in sharp detail. Rylee stood in the hallway just outside of Adeline’s office, the memory of the babysitter frustratingly grabbing her hair replaying. She saw the scene play out with
