Dario’s POV

The monitors ran on a separate system from everything else in the house.

It wasn’t connected to the main network, or linked to a device that could be traced or compromised.

The footage stored on a physical drive in a room that did not appear on any architectural plan of the property.

I had built it that way years before Emily, before any of this.

It was just a habit of preparing for circumstances.

I sat in front of the monitors now with my coffee going cold beside ...