Three days later, Silas sat at his desk, his body wrapped in bandages.
It had been three days since the explosion. The search and rescue team he'd sent out still hadn't found a single trace.
His phone screen stayed lit, frozen on his last conversation with Vivian.
Silas: Vivian, I'm giving you a chance. Come back and explain.
Silas: Don't just disappear on me. I won't allow you to die.
Silas: If anything happens to you, I swear I'll...
He kept sending message after message, but every one of them disappeared into silence.
Vivian never responded once.
Before, it was always her who clung to him, flooding his inbox with a relentless barrage of texts. Even after a fight, she'd respond within seconds.
But now—dead silence. As if she had never existed in this world at all.
'Could she re
