“The basement stays sealed,” Adrian said the moment Lucas finished speaking.
His voice was steady, but something sharp moved beneath the calm. Not fear. Not exactly anger. Something colder.
Lucas leaned back slightly from the keyboard. “The signal says otherwise.” My eyes stayed on the blinking dot on the screen. It pulsed steadily beneath the floor plan of the house, directly under Adrian’s office.
Lower level.
The sealed basement.
A place no one had entered in ten years.
Adrian turned away from the monitor, pacing once across the room before stopping near the window. The city lights reflected faintly across the glass.
“I locked that room myself,” he said. Lucas folded his arms. “Locks can be opened.” “Not that one.”
The certainty in Adrian’s tone made the air shift again. I looke
