Liam's POV:
It had been a week and a bit since Sussan's voluntary disappearance. With each passing day, my patience waned, and I had put several of my best men in charge of finding her.
We couldn't find anyone who had seen Sussan the day or night she left the town. As the days slipped by without a trace of Sussan, an unbearable weight settled in my chest. The absence of answers, of solid clues indicating her whereabouts, became the dense fog clouding my mind.
It was an uncertainty woven of shadows, growing heavier and suffocating.
Impotence solidified in my bones, eroding the confidence that was typically my ally. I felt stripped of tools, facing the darkness with empty hands.
There was no room for rest or respite; time transformed into a relentless enemy, devouring hopes every seco
