Chapter 16: Anna Chase Catches Him

The overhead light came back on at the forty-five-second mark, triggered by Anna's movement as she crossed the bullpen toward my workstation. She didn't ask to sit in the second chair. She pulled it out and sat down in the way people only sit when they've already decided something.

I turned my monitor so she could see it without leaning.

She looked at the maritime risk matrix first. I watched her eyes track the grid — left to right, the way you'd read it if you were reading it as a risk matrix. Then I watched her stop. Go back to the upper left corner. Start again, slower.