ADRIANO POV
The knock came at twelve minutes past midnight.
It wasn't a guard's knock. It was too hard. Too direct. The knock of someone who had already decided they were coming in.
"Come in," I said.
Yuna Park walked past the guard before he could react. She crossed the room and slammed her phone face up on my desk. She stepped back and looked at me. She said nothing.
I looked at the phone.
One word was on the screen: VIGIL.
"She sent it forty minutes ago," Yuna said. "From an unknown number. Then the signal died."
"What does VIGIL mean?" I asked.
"It means that she is in danger, cannot communicate, and that I should tell you," Yuna said. "It's a code we agreed on years ago. Two women in a dangerous world making plans for the worst case." She paused. "I never thought she would us
