Micah frowned. “That doesn’t make sense.”
“It does,” I said. “If the goal isn’t to steal everything.”
Victor’s eyes narrowed. “Then what’s the goal?”
I didn’t answer right away.
Because I knew.
They weren’t trying to take the company.
They were trying to survive long enough for someone else to stop it.
I didn’t know how or why, but it had Mira’s signature all over it. Even with everything I’d done to her, she was still trying to help me save my company.
Fuck.
I rushed back to my computer, and for the first time I actuallylookedat the code I’d dismissed because it moved too fast toread. I pulled out my phone, recorded the screen, then played it back in slow motion.
My breath caught.
I looked up at Micah. “Where’s Mira?”
“She was at home the last time I saw her.”
I didn’t answer. I was already moving.
I ran out of my office, ignoring the shouts behind me. There wasn’t time to explain. We’d already lost too much time. If she was anywhere other than her apartment, we were in far more trouble.
And if someone had laid a hand on her?—
I scanned my badge at the executive elevator, grateful it overrode the lockdown. As the doors slid shut and the car dropped toward the garage, I dialed 911.
The code looping across my screen, the one no one could slow down in time, hadn’t been a breach at all.
It had been an SOS.
From Mira.
With her address.
The line clicked live in my ear as the elevator dropped.
“911, what’s your emergency?” the Operator on the other end answered.
“My name is Sebastian Reid.” I took a breath. “I need officers dispatched immediately to a residential address. The resident there is being held under duress.”
“Sir, can you tell me who?—”
“I don’t know who,” I cut in. “But I know she sent an SOS, and I know she wouldn’t do that unless she was in danger.”
There was a brief pause, the sound of keys clicking in the background.
“Give me the address.” Her tone was more urgent as she answered this time.
I did. From memory. Side effect of having a near photographic memory. It was good for some things.
The elevator doors opened onto the garage, and I sprinted to my car.
