Adam kept walking after that.
The memory had given him something valuable. He had the name, the face, and the place now. He knew where Eshan Verma had been buried, and he knew who had pulled the trigger.
But Adam did not let that push him into another careless move.
What happened with Bruno and Kenji had been enough. He had treated one exposed line like a safe path, then walked too close to it himself.
He was not going to repeat that mistake with a police officer.
Rovan Hale was not Bruno. A thug could be pushed with greed or fear in simple ways. A policeman understood procedure, pressure, and what to do when a threat appeared from nowhere. If Adam went to him too early and said, I know what you did, then Rovan would not just panic. He would start checking the leak, tracing the danger, and hunting for the hand behind it.
Adam already had enough enemies. He did not need a trained one added to the list because of impatience.
