“Sorry if I stepped on your antique toes, but I suppose you look good for your age.” Not the reaction he’d been expecting. Nevertheless, he needed to get to the bottom of where she’d met up with Lisada before that parking lot. Could she be Mia’s maker too? Wouldn’t he sense that in some way? “Did you cross paths with her at the research center?” “Not that I remembered everyone I met, but I don’t think so. It’s almost like it was from further back, like from when I was a child.” That was even more confusing. He certainly felt more out-of-touch than ever with this situation. Who was she really? Could her parents’ plane crash have been more than an accident? He’d suspected as much when she’d first told him, but had dismissed it as paranoia. Yet, the grandmother who’d cared for her, even th

