T amilla, are you awake?’! said in a low, tense voice. I felt a shudder | run through me. It couldn’t get any worse than this. I still had my eye on Kyle. He was definitely watching Jamilla’s building. Goddamn him to hell.
‘I am now. No, I was awake. Where are you, Alex? Don’t tell me you’re still outside? Please don’t tell me that. Alex, what the hell is going on?’
‘Listen to me. The Mastermind is outside your place. I can see him.  I think he’ll try to get inside soon. I want to come up there and I don’t want him to see me. Is there a back way?’ Then I told her who the killer was.
She exploded with anger, most of it directed at Kyle.’I knew there was something seriously wrong with him - but not this wrong. We have to stop that sonofabitch. I don’t care how smart he’s supposed to be.’
She told me where to look for a service entrance and then a fire escape that would take me to her floor. I hurried around in the shadows. I didn’t think that Kyle had seen me. I hoped not. But then - he was the Mastermind.
He was smart, as clever as anyone I’d ever worked against.
He knew about surveillance, probably a lot more than I did.
He didn’t make mistakes, at least not until now.  I found the back entrance of her building easily, and I hurried up the stairs. I tried not to make a sound. I had no way of knowing where Kyle was right now.
When I............