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CHLOE
My stomach is in knots by the time Nikolai returns, the toast I’ve eaten sitting inside like a rock. I know Konstantin is his older brother, the tech genius of the family, and I strongly suspect that the “something” his team has found relates to my situation.
Now that I’ve had a chance to think about it, Konstantin is probably how Nikolai had known all those things about me from the beginning—like the fact that I hadn’t posted on my highly private social media during my month on the run. And he’s also how Nikolai got access to the police files and discovered that they’d been altered to make my mom’s murder look even more like a suicide.
Konstantin and his team must be the “resources” Nikolai mentioned during the car ride here, the advantage he has over Bransford.
Sure enough,
