Subject 09-X

Lenora stepped back from the intercom.

Her phone buzzed with Luc's file transfer. She opened it in the hallway, Katya reading over her shoulder, Stefan close enough to see but keeping his distance, as if he already suspected what the file might contain and didn't want to be the one to confirm it out loud.

The document was thin. Three pages. The kind of file that had been closed not because the cas