He did not accuse her.

He gave her nothing at all to react to, nothing to warn her, because his whole strategy now rested on moving Lily to safety before Sarah understood that anything had changed.

She watched them go, and she still believed, in that moment, that she was managing a husband’s overreaction to a clingy morning.

She had no idea that the far worse reality was already in motion, that the footage had been found, that the evidence was being gathered, that Marcus already knew exactly who Julian was.

She thought she was watching a temporary disruption.