the keyboard and the click of mouse sounded in the quiet of her apartment. The air was unfriendly and it wa

get what she had seen, it was all too much. He had tried to convince her to back off, but Mira wa

sn't just his high-end real estate investments that picked her interest; it was the missing people. There were reports of people disapp

ck it. She had spent hours going through police reports, missing persons cases, and suspicious incidents, each one scarier than the last. But there was a pattern, a disturbing one. The

clear now, too clear. It wasn't just the disappearances; it was t

from private investigators who had been hired to look into the cases, but

e questions she had. The more dangerous it became. But this was bigger than anything she had imagined. The people who had gone missing

t. Mira looked at the screen, but it wasn't a message

ot after what had happened with the strange voice following

nds, she answ

er voice calm despit

unded from the othe

nt. "You need to stop digging. You

. It was

replied immediately, her voice firm. She wasn't going to let him thr

er side of the call. Mira could notice

few missing people. You're digging into something bigger than both of us. If you contin

y? What could be so dangerous

t ready to show it. This is a serious case and not the regular criminal case she handles.

, his voice filled with a kind of

could respond, t

t the phone in her hand, her mind became divided. She didn't

k to what she was doing before the call. The pages she had been working on had disappea

ngers were disturbing the keyboard desperately trying to

me cold and he

hacked into

side while sitting. Whoever it was, they knew what she

flashed one more time before it went completely bla

. Someone who didn't wan

om became smaller and darker for her. She thought maybe, she had made a mistake b

to find the missing files, no matter what. They were the key to everythi

again? How could she even be sure that Dane was

thinking, suddenly, ther

oment. Who could it be? The k

r, her hand shaking as she held the handle of the door. Was it him? W

ay. But it wasn't Dane. It was someone else, a man who stood in the darkness. His f

sed to respond but he instead just moved f

his face, her heart racing. She couldn

n. She checked the screen, and this time it was someone

eart

e said with

voice was calm. "You have made a dangerous m

ended abruptly, leaving her in t

hed, and someone