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I was halfway to my truck when Harold called my name through the phone. “Lucas, listen to me.” I stopped beside the curb. “Police are already on the way.” “How …

“What do you mean you destroyed his family?” I asked. Richard looked toward the police officers in my living room. Then at Emily. Then back at me. For once, he …

I didn’t remember leaving Merritt headquarters. I remembered the elevator. I remembered Harold saying my name twice. I remembered reporters shouting questions when the doors opened. But the next clear …

Daniel kept staring at his mother’s handwriting. Emily. One name. One word. And somehow it had changed the entire room. “No,” Daniel said again. Father Michael quietly stepped back from …

I didn’t sleep after that phone call. I sat on my sister’s couch with the lights off, staring at the black screen of my phone. The message kept repeating in …

I didn’t move. Charles’s footsteps stopped at the bottom of the stairs. “Audrey?” His voice was calm. Too calm. I pressed myself against the wall beside the storage room door …