Ava’s POV:
The blind spot is gone.
The sentence keeps replaying in my head as if repetition might make it easier to understand. It does the opposite. Every time it loops, the implications sharpen. Every layer of protection I thought existed has thinned to something fragile and temporary.
Julian is already moving.
He steps away from me and toward the far wall, pulling his phone back out, fingers flying over the screen with quiet urgency. He does not raise his voice. He does not look rattled. That alone tells me how serious this is. Julian only moves this fast when the situation is already burning.
Daniel watches him with interest, not concern.
“That was faster than anticipated,” Daniel says. “They must be watching closer than we thought.”
“They always are,” Julian replies. “We just g
