For the next week, Daniel canceled every case and searched the entire city for news of Evelyn.
But she had vanished without a trace.
Late at night, he held Ivy's phone with the shattered screen and read through the messages one by one.
Putting himself in Evelyn's position, he could not imagine how painful it must have been for her to see those cruel words while experiencing everything that had happened.
She had been lying on the cold delivery bed while their child waited for his signature.
And he had been holding Ivy's hand as he walked into a hotel room.
While she trembled from the pain of contractions, his hand had been caressing Ivy's face.
When the child she had fought to save suffocated before her eyes, he had been lost in pleasure.
Daniel closed his eyes.
Tears soaked into h
