Ethan was through the connecting door in thirty seconds.
He read the message over her shoulder. She felt him go still behind her — that particular quality of stillness that wasn't calm but controlled, the difference between a man who wasn't affected and a man who had decided what to do with the effect.
"Frank," he said.
"James has someone on the building," she said. "I know. But whoever sent this knows I was in Richard's study tonight which means they were watching the estate corridor at midnight which means —"
"Someone inside," Ethan said.
"Someone inside," she confirmed.
They looked at each other.
"Serena," they said together.
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Ethan called James at one in the morning without apology. James answered on the first ring, which told her everything about what James's nights looked
