Chapter 152 The Quiet Before

• Brett's POV
• The alert came in at 6:47 AM on the fifth morning but I almost didn't check it.
• That was the thing I would think about later — how close I came to letting it sit, to putting the phone face-down the way Riley had started asking me to at breakfast, the small negotiation of a woman who understood that my relationship with my phone was less about communication and more about the inability to stop watching for threats.