“There’s something you haven’t seen,” she said.

“And if Julian knows I told you, he’ll say I did it all.”

PART 10

I did not follow Chloe into an empty hallway.

I asked her to speak in the public lobby and told her I would not promise secrecy about anything affecting Noah.

She looked toward the elevators, then sat on a bench beneath a faded painting of a river.

Her hands shook so badly the bracelet clicked against the metal armrest.