Chapter 576 - And the reason?

The mansion sat in the hills above Los Angeles, tucked behind gates that dissolved into the landscape, the kind of property that announced itself only by the absence of noise. The living room opened onto a pool deck that seemed to spill into the canyon below, the city lights scattered across the basin like fallen stars. It was the hour between day and evening when the sky turned the color of bruised fruit, and the air carried the particular stillness of a city that had not yet decided to wake for the night.