Chapter 4 - The Warning
Adrien took my phone without touching the screen.
“Did anyone know your number?”
“Everyone who works here.”
“Who outside the house?”
“Family. Friends. My sister.”
He returned it.
“Don't answer.”
“I wasn't planning to.”
He walked toward the door.
I stopped him.
“Adrien.”
He turned.
“Why would someone threaten a maid over a photograph?”
He didn't answer immediately.
Then he said, “Because sometimes the person holding the photograph doesn't matter.”
“What matters?”
“What the photograph proves.”
He returned to the table.
There was something different in his face now.
Not fear.
Calculation.
He turned the photograph over.
Victor stood outside the archive room.
Behind him was a second figure.
Blurred.
Barely visible.
I leaned closer.
“There's someone behind him.”
“I know.”
“Who?”
Adrien zoomed the image.
The second figure wore a dark suit.
But one detail was visible.
A silver watch.
I remembered it.
“I saw that watch.”
Adrien looked up sharply.
“Where?”
“Yesterday.”
“On Victor?”
“No.”
I closed my eyes.
“On Marcus.”
The room became silent.
Adrien didn't move.
May you like
Then he picked up the photograph.
“Now we know why someone wanted you to forget.”
