Half a month later, Eleanor and Carl were back in Westcliff City.
Carl had been trying to put it off—he could manage things with Katherine, but Eleanor was a whole different story.
She hadn't fully recovered yet, but still insisted on heading back.
Sure, she wanted to get that divorce done, but what really weighed on her mind was Ethan.
She'd asked a friend to check in on Martin, but the guy had vanished from their old place. It was as if he'd just disappeared.
She even reached out to the cop who took her report back then, hoping he could dig something up. Still, no luck.
Eleanor sat silently in the car, watching the streets roll by, everything looking so familiar and yet so distant.
Up ahead, in a different car, Carl was staring out his own window, looking just as l
