It was almost 8AM when they had finally made it back to Flores.
"Take the day off," Valerio had told Lilith right as she left his car. "This will be the final break you get until the case is solved."
With that said, he disappeared out of her sight. Lilith waited until he was completely out of sight before she stepped into apartment complex and made her way to her room.
"How long have you been here?" she asked the moment she stepped in to her home.
The lights were all off and the house was completely silent but Lilith had trained her senses to see the unseen and hear the unheard so even in pure darkness she was able to sense the body of the man who sat on the sofa in the next room. His breathing was deafening.
"We need to talk," Axel ignored her question and answered instead as he
