Adrian Voss didn’t leave.
That was the first thing that made it worse.
He didn’t disappear into shadows like before. He didn’t hide behind screens or messages. He stood there, in the same room, as if he had every right to exist in a place that had erased him.
And somehow—
He made it feel like he did.
“No security?” Daniel muttered under his breath, eyes scanning every angle.
Adrian’s lips curved slightly. “They won’t come.”
Ethan’s voice was cold. “You’re confident.”
“Not confident,” Adrian corrected calmly. “Prepared.”
Lara stepped forward, refusing to let his presence dominate the space. “You wanted us here. So talk.”
For a moment, Adrian just looked at her.
Not dismissively.
Not arrogantly.
But with a strange kind of interest.
“You don’t break easily,” he said.
“I don’t b
