Kael Finding Elias Vale had given us a lead, but it had not given us Sabrina. That distinction mattered enough that I repeated it to everyone involved before sunrise the next morning. “No arrests. No contact. No one gets curious and knocks on his door. We watch.” Salas leaned against the conference table while Brenner and Tessa reviewed the photographs from the library. Elias’s apartment building was already under discreet observation from two rotating teams, none of whom had been involved in the castle investigation long enough for Evelyn to recognize them. Thoren sat at the opposite end of the table. “And Evelyn?” “Same treatment. She goes to work. She goes home. Nobody changes anything around her.” His expression made it clear how much he hated that answer, but he nodded. We had l

