Chapter 9Ravenna's POVConrad called one Thursday morning.I was in the middle of a pilot performance review, red pen in hand, when my phone vibrated on the desk. I saw his name and raised a finger toward the coordinator sitting across from me.Give me a minute.She gathered her papers. I waited until the door closed.Speaks.Lilith's kidnapping. He paused. Not the kind that meant he had nothing. The kind that meant he was choosing his words. It's real.I left the pen on the desk.How real?Documented. A police report was filed when she disappeared. She was fourteen years old. The case went cold after eight months: no leads, no body, officially listed as a fugitive, despite her father's insistence to the contrary.Elias filed a complaint.Several. He pressed hard for two years. Then the trail went cold, and finally… Conrad stopped again. I think he stopped believing she would come back.I looked at the wall in front of me. The framed photograph of the company's first international po
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