Viveca Ravensworth.
She has two private security men with her, and she is demanding I send her up to your unit.”
Chapter 14 — Send Her Up Alone
I looked at Yelena, and the fear came back into her face all at once, sharp and total, and she moved — instinctively, without a thought — to put her own body between the hallway and the sofa where two of her sons were sleeping.
“Auden,” she whispered.
“Don’t let her near them.
Please.
Whatever else — don’t let her near my boys.”
“She is never going to touch them,” I said, and I had never in my life meant anything more.
I keyed the intercom.
“Send her up.
Alone.
Her security stays in the lobby, or I call the precinct and have the whole building cleared.
She comes up by herself or she doesn’t come up.”