The dim light of Adam’s study flickered as he pored over the scattered papers, a map of chaos spread across his desk. The room was quiet except for the occasional scrape of a chair or the rustle of documents but the tension was suffocating. Audrey lingered near the doorway her arms wrapped around herself as though shielding against the cold chill that wasn’t just in the air but it was in Adam’s silence.
He straightened abruptly holding up a faded envelope. “This was hidden in the files we took from Alessandro” he said his voice low but edged with steel.
Audrey stepped closer. “What is it?”
Adam opened the envelope revealing a handwritten letter and a set of coordinates. As he read his expression darkened the muscle in his jaw tightening.
“It’s worse than I thought” he muttered his eyes
