Chapter 15
The message arrived in the morning while I was still in bed.
Let's meet at Ardent Club. Private room. Thursday noon. Come alone.
Just a location and a time and the quiet confidence of a man who already knew I would be there.
I stared at it for a moment, then put the phone face down on the mattress and looked at the ceiling.
He had found something. The late-night phone call three weeks ago told me he was watching me. Now this message confirmed to me that he stopped watching, because he had arrived at something.
At breakfast I told Adrian I had a personal appointment on Thursday afternoon. He glanced up from whatever he was reading, said okay, and went back to it. He didn't question it. He learned not to ask me things and I had been comfortable with that for weeks.
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