For a heartbeat, no one in the security room moved.
The words hung in the air, impossible to process.
Evelyn and Jethro are gone.
Amelia felt the floor tilt beneath her.
"No."
The whisper escaped before she could stop it.
Robert lowered his phone slowly, his face grim.
"The east wing cameras went offline three minutes ago. Security is searching the grounds now."
Amelia shook her head.
"No. No, that's impossible."
She had left Jethro asleep.
Evelyn had been with him.
The room had guards outside.
There were cameras everywhere.
This couldn't happen.
It simply couldn't.
Then the truth crashed into her.
Edward Blackwood had sat in the nursery in broad daylight while the security system watched nothing but a looped recording.
The cameras meant nothing.
The guards meant nothing
