“You can’t take my phone.”
Harris held out one hand.
“Watch me.”
Audrey looked at my mother.
My mother gave her the tiniest shake of the head.
Too late.
Captain Ruiz saw it.
So did I.
Second payoff.
They were communicating without words because they had practiced this.
The military police investigator beside Ruiz opened a sealed evidence bag.
Inside was a small black memory card.
Audrey went still.
My mother’s eyes moved to the nursery ceiling.
The camera.
Before I deployed, I installed a nursery camera so I could see Leo after he was born. Sophia teased me for being overprotective.
“You’re going to watch him sleep from another continent?”
“Yes.”
“That is ridiculous.”
“Yes.”
But she smiled when she said it.
Two weeks after Leo came home, the live feed went dark.
My mother told me the camera was defective.
Audrey said Sophia had unplugged it because it made her feel watched.
