Chapter 211: The Bait and The Hunter

The air in Peter Zorn’s penthouse apartment, usually a sanctuary of calm high above the frenetic pulse of Coton City, was now thick with a chilling silence. The half-empty glass of water on the counter, the faint scent of Ella Scurr’s perfume lingering in the air—each detail was a testament to a life abruptly interrupted. She was gone. The initial call from Ella’s frantic sister, Allison, had been a jagged spike of alarm. The second, unanswered call to Ella’s own phone had turned that...