Chapter One Hundred and Forty-Eight

Dimitri

The face on the screen stared back at us. I knew that face. We all did. But I could not speak. Could not move. Could not process what I was seeing.

Irina gasped beside me. Alexei stood frozen. The shop owner looked at us confused.

"You know him?" the owner asked.

I did not answer. I just kept staring at the screen. The hood had slipped for only a second, but it was enough. Enough to see the truth we never expected.

"Play it again," I said. My voice was rough.

The owner rewound the footage. Played it again. The figure walked to the...