Aiden Knight's POV
I follow the woman in the black dress through the gleaming lobby of the Hidden Dragon Building. Her heels click against the polished marble floor as she leads Leo and me toward a bank of elevators I hadn't noticed from outside.
"My apologies, Mr. Knight. I'm Ruby Mills, Mr. Finch's senior aide." She swipes a black keycard against a hidden sensor. "Your identity has been kept confidential from lower-level staff for security reasons."
The elevator doors slide open silently. Inside, the walls are lined with what appears to be reinforced steel rather than the typical mirrored panels. Ruby presses her palm against a biometric scanner, and the elevator begins its descent.
"We're going down?" Leo asks, glancing at me with confusion.
"The real operations are below ground," Ruby explains without looking at us. "Forty floors up, twenty floors down."
