Helen Lloyd clutched her phone, occasionally checking the messaging interface to see if her employer had received the news yet. Simultaneously, she had to leverage her network of contacts to quickly trace Julian's whereabouts.
It was her own negligence. She hadn't anticipated such a scenario. She should have stopped Julian from the start.
Helen sighed in frustration. The other side was monitoring them so closely; if Julian hadn't played along with the flow of events, who knew what even more horrific things might have occurred? Just then, her phone vibrated. Helen hurriedly opened it to check. It was a message from Ethan Caldwell, containing a concise two-word reply: "Understood."
