Chapter 10
We went through the ballroom, the parlor, the powder room, and up and down all of the corridors in the back of the house, but there was no sign of Otto.
"Did he sneak upstairs?" Brianna asked, looking down the corridor to the pair of officers standing guard there.
"Hold on," I said, sitting down on a chair that was against the wall in the corridor, opposite a set of double doors I was sure went to Mr. McTavet's study. I could hear the murmur of male voices inside. The chair had a stale cigar smell to it and wasn't particularly comfortable, but I only needed a moment.
I closed my eyes and pushed my awareness out of my body. It wasn't hard to find Otto this way. I knew his pattern of threads well after our last adventure together.
I opened my eyes. "He's in the kitchen," I sa
