Someone had entered Lena’s room inside Blackthorn estate.
This was the most heavily secured property in the city and somehow no cameras caught it.
No guards saw anything and no alarms was triggered which could only mean one thing.
Someone inside the estate was helping them.
That realization felt like poison in my chest while I stood inside the security room watching her hallway footage replay across six different screens again, and again, and again.
Still nothing.
Lena’s hallway remained completely empty all night. No movement, no breach, no visible intruder.
Impossible.
“Sir,” one of the guards said carefully behind me, “we already checked the internal feeds twice.”
“Check them again.”
“We did.”
I turned slowly toward him and the guard immediately looked like he regretted exis
