Calculated Provocation

Everyone at the table went still.

Maeve was already moving to the side of the window — not in front of it, beside it, the specific position of someone who wanted to look without being seen looking.

"One vehicle," she said. "Stationary. About four hundred meters north."

Luc's voice came from Lenora's phone before she could reach for it — he had been on a background monitoring call since Dante arriv