ELLIOT
“She picked up.”
Daniel’s voice came through the phone as they hit the lobby doors. Elliot stopped walking for exactly one second.
“Where is she.”
“Still in the office. She had her phone on silent. She is moving to the lower exit now.” A pause. “The vehicle outside has not moved.”
“Keep her on the line until she is out of the building.”
He ended the call and looked at Sera beside him. She had her bag over one shoulder and her jaw set and the particular expression she wore when she had already thought three steps past the current moment and was waiting for everyone else to catch up.
“She is out,” he said.
Something in Sera’s shoulders released. Just slightly. Just enough to tell him how tightly she had been holding it.
“Good,” she said.
They stood on the pavement outside Ad
