then gently closed my fingers around it. “Not yet,” she said, and I understood that finding her did not mean I had gotten my wife back.
The next morning, Dominic called before sunrise with the results of a deeper security audit. Evelyn had accessed my private office safe several times during the week Claire disappeared, which explained how she obtained documents that made her lies look convincing. But Dominic had kept searching backward through old logs, archived messages, household schedules, and records Claire and I had never thought to compare.
