Chapter 11
The world around Evelyn went silent.
Your father is gone.
The sentence echoed endlessly inside her mind while rain continued falling across the docks and police lights flashed violently against the river.
“No,” she whispered.
Damian stepped closer carefully, his expression grim. “Evelyn—”
“No.”
Her voice cracked sharply this time.
“He was at the rehabilitation center an hour ago.”
The investigator standing beside Damian looked visibly uncomfortable. “Security said someone signed him out twenty minutes ago.”
Cold fear spread through Evelyn’s chest instantly.
“Signed him out?” she repeated. “Who?”
The investigator hesitated.
“That’s the problem. The signature was fake.”
Lucas swore quietly under his breath.
Sophia covered her mouth in horror.
Everything was spirali
