BRENT'S POV
It was Joan!
What the f**k is wrong with this lady? Why was she calling at this time?
I quickly reached for my phone before it exposed me. Before it rang out and revealed my identity and where I was hidden between the chairs.
I immediately silenced it and blackened the screen, then dropped the phone back into my pocket.
I squeezed myself further between the chairs until those two strange people left.
They drifted closer to Xavier's body. I could see them from afar, how they searched every part of him, checking his clothes to see if there was anything substantial, and I know that thing is the evidence Xavier had against me.
They took something from his body, though I couldn't make out what it was from where I was hiding, and then they left the scene.
Their distant voice
