CHAPTER TWENTY THREE
AVA By morning the estate felt different. It was more quiet. Something was off and I could tell by the way the guards all walked with straight spines, eye forward and absolutely no conversation. Ryder had locked the estate down completely before dawn. No communication out. No calls, no messages, nothing leaving these walls without going through him first and I found out when I picked up my phone to text Lena and got nothing, not even a dial tone. I found him in his office. "My phone isn't working," I said. He didn't look up from the screen. "I know." "Fix it." "No." I came further into the room and put both hands on the desk and he finally looked up then, unhurried, and waited. "I need to reach Lena," I said. "She's my source and my friend and she has no idea what's happening and
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