(Author's POV)
Phineas got back to the apartment just after ten-thirty.
He'd had Benny run a full trace on Jasper's movements at the Hargrove building - every camera, every timestamp, every logged entry and exit. The report came back within the hour: the elevator malfunction was confirmed as mechanical failure, unrelated to any external interference, and the timing of Jasper's presence on that floor had no detectable connection to William's schedule.
Phineas read the report twice.
He set his phone down on the kitchen counter and stood there for a long moment, the apartment quiet around him. The city hummed faintly beyond the windows. He looked at nothing in particular.
Jasper had just gotten lucky. That was what the evidence said. Jasper had been in the right place at the right time t
