Chapter 16: Circles

BACK AT ENORA'S APARTMENT

Victor looked at his phone, the open text conversation between him and Enora on the screen. The text line blinked patiently as he wrote and erased in the bar over and over again. What was he supposed to say to her?

They didn't find the guy, so stay away from the windows? That he feels like an idiot for letting Bianchi get the jump on him again? That sending her away from him was the last thing he wanted to do because it's practically killing him being apart. Nah. Those wouldn't bode over well.

Gil entered the apartment with a tablet in hand, "We found how the envelope got in."

Victor straightened up in the armchair, "Let me see it."

"The men were right that only residents came in and out of the building, but that was how it got in. Her elderly neighbor from down the hall taped it to the door. She'd explained that a man asked her to leave it as a surprise,"

"Ah geez."

"Yeah. We had to lie and tell her it wasn't anything bad, but rather that it was sus