The study was quiet, maybe too quiet for a man whose blood was still simmering with the heat of chaos.
Aaron leaned back in his chair, one hand scrolling through the encrypted feed on his laptop and then, the other clenched into a tight fist.
The footage from the auction streamed in sharp frames.
He used his means to get access to camera angles the public never had access to.
He saw all the faces from those at the auction, those he knew and those he didn't.
Then he eyes landed on Lucas who was crouched to the end of the room.
His expression in the feed was unreadable, of course it was.
But Aaron could see through it. He could see a man with satisfaction in his eyes that his plan was working.
A knock pulled him from the spiral of suspicion.
He sat up straighter, his eyes flicking t
