Brielle
I cleared the back door and hit the alley running.
Two minutes. That was all I gave myself to get around the block; enough time to move without being seen, but not so much that whoever was watching out front would have time to change positions or disappear.
I stayed close to the walls, cut through the gaps between buildings instead of taking the open street, and came around from a completely different angle than the one I'd left from.
I stopped at the corner and looked.
I could see a man in a dark jacket standing at the far end of the block with his head angled down toward his phone, except his eyes were up. I clocked it immediately.
The head-down, eyes-up thing was something people did when they wanted to look casual but needed to watch a specific place. I'd seen it before
