HANNAH’S POV:
She shook her head very slightly, though she was not disagreeing exactly. More like trying to settle something that still had not fully settled. “I had been tracking it for weeks,” she said. “My little notes. I had dates, I had what was said in specific meetings, I had approximate windows for when the leaks had to have happened. I was actually getting somewhere with it. I could feel the shape of it.” She looked at her coffee cup. “And then that message arrived on a Sunday evening when I was sitting in my flat and I had been planning to come to you on the Monday morning with everything I had found and instead I sat there for about four hours reading the message over and over and then I packed a bag.”
“A Sunday evening,” I said.
“Yes.”
“Timing,” I said quietly, mostly to myself. Whoever sent it had known she was close to bringing something forward. They had moved first on purpose.
Maya looked at me. “You are thinking the timing was deliberate.”
“Yes,” I said. “Someone knew you were getting close. The message was not just a threat. It was to stop you before you got to Monday.”
She was quiet for a long moment. Then she said, “Which means someone in that building knew what I was doing.”
“Yes,” I said.
“Which means the same person who was feeding the information was also watching me investigate it.”
“Yes.”
She absorbed that. “That is actually worse,” she said.
“Yes,” I agreed. “It is.”

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