Lees had been even more paranoid than Syrina had given him credit for. He’d panicked at the first sign of a break-in, and according to the servants left behind, had vanished at first light. His home stood abandoned, his business in confusion. He’d skipped town with his wife before he’d even had a chance to find out it was a false alarm.
Ormo wasn’t going to like that, but there was nothing Syrina could have done about it. Lees had fled an hour before she’d even slipped out of the vault.
There were a few personal things she wanted to take care of, but with Lees’s disappearance she couldn’t risk Ormo hearing details from anyone but her, and that meant she needed to tell him now.
* * *
“You scared him off,” he said, by way of greeting.
Syrina needed to assume he wasn’t happy, even if she
