The Man Who Never Boarded the Plane
“You’ve been—” She looked up at the ceiling, at the crown molding, at the smoke detector that was not a smoke detector.
“You’ve been recording me?”
“I’ve been recording my house.
For four months.
Along with everyone in it.” He let that sit.
“And this morning I never went to the airport.
I came back in through the service gate at seven-forty and I have been sitting in the control room under your feet since seven-fifty-one with the audio up.”
The phone came out of her hand.