Chapter 2: # CHAPTER 2: The Camera Nobody Was Supposed to Find
Mason arrived within three minutes.
He listened without a word.
Then he looked at Emma.
"Can you show me where?"
Emma nodded.
Lorenzo reached for his coat.
Mason stopped him.
"You don't go."
"She's my wife."
"Which is exactly why you stay here."
Lorenzo's jaw tightened.
"You work for me."
"And right now I'm doing my job." Mason's voice stayed level.
"If Isabella is hiding, a convoy of black SUVs will send her running.
Or worse — whoever followed Sophia will know we found her."
The room went quiet.
Lorenzo looked at Emma.
At Sophia.
At the photograph on his desk.
He set his coat down.
"Go."
Mason left with two plainclothes officers.
Sophia pointed them toward the freight district from the car.
Emma stayed at the estate.
Forty minutes later, Mason called.
Lorenzo answered before the first ring finished.
"What did you find?"
A pause.
"Dog prints.
A blanket.
Food wrappers."
"That's nothing."
"There's also bl\*\*d."
Lorenzo's hand tightened on the phone.
"Human?"
"Unknown.
Small amount.
We're preserving it."
"And?"
Another pause.
Longer this time.
"Lorenzo.
There's a camera hidden inside a utility box.
Pointed directly at the warehouse entrance.
Someone installed it recently."
The cold feeling returned to his chest.
"Who?"
"That's what worries me."
Because if Lorenzo's people hadn't put it there — someone else had been watching that warehouse long before Emma ever walked past it.
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What that camera recorded will change everything Lorenzo thought he knew.
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