Marcus listened to all of it without interrupting.
When she finished he was quiet for a moment.
Then he said: "She approached you directly."
"Yes."
"Outside your building."
"Yes."
"Which means she's been watching your building." He said it evenly. Not to frighten her. Just registering it.
"Yes," Mei said. "I had assumed."
Marcus looked at his phone.
Mei watched his face. She'd been watching this man's face for months....in hospital corridors, at estate dinners, in the background of every significant moment of the last year. She'd come to understand him as a person who showed very little but that the little he showed was accurate.
Right now what he was showing was the expression of a man who had just received the last piece of something.
"Marcus," she said.
He looked up.
"Do you have her," she said.
He looked at her for a moment.
"Yes," he said. "I have her."
Mei picked up her tea.
"Good," she said.
***
DAMIEN'S POV
He was in the shower when Marcus called.
