Emma stared at me.
Whatever she said next never registered. All I could see was the needle hovering less than an inch from Lily's arm.
The security team in the next room was listening.
"Let me hear her speak first," I said.
The masked man seized Lily's hair and forced her head up.
"Tell your mother where you are."
Lily took two ragged breaths. She said, "Deux, Est, Cent," then added that she could hear a water pump starting up at regular intervals.
Sublevel two, east side, roughly 100 feet from the pump room.
The code we had agreed on before she left was working.
Bennett relayed the location to the Bellmont police. It turned out that Lily had received a fake meeting notice, and the security guard accompanying her had been attacked in the elevator.
"The files are large. I'll need
