Chapter 43
That night, after Ava left for something urgent, I sat on my bed and made copies of the files..... multiple copies. Flash drives, hidden cloud accounts, even an encrypted email to myself. I wasn’t just going to have one backup. I was going to have backups of my backup.
What I didn’t know was that someone else had been lurking outside my door.
Cassandra Rivers.
She’d been quiet enough that I didn’t hear her, and I wouldn’t have suspected a thing, until later.
It was sometime after midnight when I woke to the faintest sound. My room was dim, lit only by the thin strip of moonlight cutting across the floor. My eyes adjusted slowly, and that’s when I saw her.
Cas.
Standing over my nightstand with my phone in her hand.
“What are you doing in my room and that too with m
