Page 125 of Black Reign

Voices change.

A ripple begins traveling through the property.

I slip away from the catering staging area and move deeper inside.

This is the part I wanted.

Not Ghost knowing I'm here.

Me knowing who Ghost is.

I have been trying to solve him since France.

The invitation gives me names.

So I researched.

Kane Haverhill is easy.

NBA.

Stanford.

Royal Oaks.

Handsome enough that cameras follow him for sport.

Not Ghost.

His public life is too documented, and Ghost has been online during games.

Drew Travers is also impossible.

Too loud.

Too reckless.

Married.

Ghost's humor has teeth. Drew's humor appears to use blunt-force trauma.

Jalen is interesting for perhaps five minutes.

Single.

Smart enough.

Connected.

But I find too many public schedules that conflict with Ghost.

And somehow I cannot imagine Ghost spending forty minutes kissing models in the Mediterranean.

Tristan Vale?

Possible intelligence.

European familiarity.