(Noah) Reese sat with that for a moment. "How long?" she asked. "Longer than I realized until tonight." Her eyes stayed on mine. "How long, Noah." "Possibly from the beginning," I said. "We can't confirm exactly when it started." Something shifted in her expression. Not anger this time. Something quieter than that and harder to look at directly. "From the beginning," she said. "Yes." "From when I moved in." "Possibly." She looked away from me then. Not at anything specific. Just away. Like she needed somewhere to put her eyes that wasn't my face for a second. I let her have that. She looked back at me finally. "So when you were showing up at my office," she said. "Sending breakfast. All of it." "Yes." "Someone was watching that too." "Possibly." She was quiet for a mome

