Nineteen
For two days, her calls and attempts to reach Khan were rebuffed. He had meetings. He was away from the office. She’d even gone to his house only to have his domestic AI send her away, claiming he wasn’t home. Grace had expected to start their conversation in this way—with this fight for access. But after the incident in the park…The way he’d seemed to disappear in a rainstorm of blossoms like a figment of her imagination made her skin crawl.
It was true that chasing him around was likely a waste of her time. It wasn’t like he’d left her empty-handed.
Water, he’d said. The path to her solving this fraud case was to track the water.
She intended to.
When 17:00 rolled around, Grace remembered her promise to Davion to keep her hours light. As distracted as her mind might have b
