"Blood was splattered everywhere, soaking the ground and staining the walls. Yet every corpse of our attackers and the villa staff alike had vanished without a trace. Nothing was left behind except pools of drying blood."
Gage fell silent for a moment, his fingers pressing harder against his temple.
"My instincts are screaming that this incident is far bigger than we realize. Whoever cleaned up that battlefield didn't just remove the bodies; they erased every piece of evidence they could. That wasn't the work of amateurs. Someone got there before Mr. Lowe's people... and they made sure the dead disappeared."
Ashley frowned, but her memories of the previous night were fragmented. Whatever drug they had slipped into her system had left her mind shrouded in a thick haze, making it impossible to trust what little she remembered.
Gideon, however, was in a different position.
He already had a few suspects.
