Chapter 18 · She Knew My Name

The scarf was still warm.

I stood in that elevator, staring at the crumpled silk on the floor, and my hand wouldn't move. Blood soaked through one corner. Fresh. Wet enough to leave a mark on the metal floor.

Lucien pulled me back before I could touch it.

"Don't." His voice was flat. "Wraith wants you to pick it up."

"That's Vivian's." I knew it was. I'd seen it in the photo from her file. The one where she was smiling outside this building on her first day. Same blue silk. Same pattern. "She wore it in the picture."

"I know."

"So where is she?"

He didn't answer. He pulled me out into the hall and hit the emergency stop. The elevator doors sealed shut with the scarf still inside.

I turned on him. "My name was in her file. Years before you hired me. You gonna explain that or just keep yanking me around like I'm too stupid to notice?"

"Not here."

"Here. Now." I shoved his chest. Didn't move him an inch but it felt good anyway. "She knew who I was. She left a warning with my name on it.