Chapter 26“Tadaima,” Hiroshi called out as he came in the front door. He took off his shoes at the genkan, waiting for Ayana to shout back, “O-kaeri nasai.”
Not hearing it, Hiroshi braced himself with a clear explanation about why he had been home for only a couple hours before he got called away again. He’d worked all day, except for a nap while Akiko took a long lunch. He’d pulled out his futon bed in his office and it felt like old times, before he moved in with Ayana, when he’d slept in his office most nights.
He had not found much on the case all day. Every direction ended with nothing. The cryptocurrency accounts disappeared, Jack and Jill’s finances seemed aboveboard, and missing foreign women were all long-since cold cases. Even the cases of child pornography didn’t trace back to
