(Noah)
I didn’t leave church right away.
The room had emptied around me, but I stayed near the table with the footage still frozen on Cam’s laptop. The man in the maintenance jacket stared back from the screen like he had meant to leave his face behind. Maybe he had. Maybe that was the point.
Vega wanted me looking in one direction.
That meant I needed to look everywhere else too.
Dante stayed by the door, quiet for once. That alone told me he was thinking the same thing I was. Vega had been patient, and patient men didn’t build something this carefully just to scare a woman in her apartment building.
He had a second move waiting.
Maybe a third.
I looked at the map again.
The apartment building.
The south garage.
The far road outside the compound.
Ethan’s route home.
Every poi
