Chapter 161

Four weeks. Twenty-eight days without a sign of Cecelia. Not a text. Not a sighting. Not a whisper.

Beatrix stood at the window of her office at Mercer Industries, watching the city below. Security guards still accompanied her everywhere. The FBI still checked in daily. Gideon's team still swept for bugs and bombs each morning.

But something had changed. The tight knot of fear in her s