Emma felt a sudden surge of fear as she quickly got up and approached the door. She opened it, expecting to see someone. But the figure had vanished.
"Must be the delivery person that dropped the package," she thought.
She stepped back inside, wrapping her coat tightly around her. But she wasn't shaking from the cold. The air outside felt heavy with tension. Her mind kept replaying the disturbing images she'd seen. They won't fade away.
The thought of Ryan—her supposed fiancé—capable of such cruelty shook her to her core. How could she stay there? How could she even be in the same room with him, knowing the kind of person he might truly be?
Emma’s first instinct was to end this sham engagement right away, to pull herself out of a contract that now felt like a trap. Ryan’s proposal, w
