Chapter 79

“The garage camera didn’t record her car,” the property manager, Mr. Greene, reported, voice grim. “But the gate

footage… it shows her Lexus–registration matches–entering at

08:47 PM exactly.”

“Then the car–her car–vanished from every camera inside the

community?” I asked, my tone flat.

He nodded. “Yes. But then last night, around 09:45 PM, we see a

Chevy leave the garage. License plate was obscured.”

“Someone tampered with the feed,” I said, turning to Gai. “Cross- reference all cameras for past fifty hours. Find anomalies: blind

frames, jump cuts, missing files.”

“Got it,” Gai replied crisply, tapping keys. “Also pulled the gate timestamp. Scanned for identical cars passing in and out other

entry points.”

I slid my phone to quit the call now there were police on site, sirens muted – and spoke into silence. “Signal staff to hold any


technicians on standby. No firmware resets. We need original

data. Freeze everything.”

The officer in charge, Detective Marquez, nodded gravely. “We’re already logging chain of custody for all drives and

DVRs”

“Good,” I said, forcing calm. “The longer we wait, the more

chance someone erases evidence”

Rustling footsteps alerted me to Ava approaching. Her face was

pale.

“Alexander,” she whispered, “they found something.”

“What did they find?”

A deer–in–headlights fear made her eyes flicker. “That same

shows it entering the gate here three days

the


at 0:03 hours.”

exactly

been followed then too.” Ava

the same car,” Gai said, voice

model and license plate of the one that

night.”

took a step back. “So

movements, even before

clenched. This wasn’t random.

had been

Chapter 76

stepped forward, holding a portable

the gate feed. I’ve logged


three days ago. No

Also, someone tried to

exit times. It’s

open the back of my

intimidation. Someone had been tracking Olivia’s

what time her car crossed each

Dangerous. With the reach

motion, secrets I’d

lethal.

Alexander’s POV

as

black–clad figure, hat pulled low, entering

carrying a suitcase. He appeared


later,

and vanished from view. That

saw him.

closer. “Freeze it on his face,”

the blurry image. His build was tall,

by shadow, but his hat seemed

familiar.

the security techs

again–leaving the floor swiftly after

bag at one apartment. We tracked

basement.

No license

said, pressing record. “You heard about that pantry


to Bella’s apartment? I believe we may have

suspect.”

Detective Marquez, her

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