Zack sat on the couch, staring at nothing in particular. His thoughts were a tangled mess, circling back to the same question he had been asking himself for weeks: Where was Elizabeth?
Leo sat across from him, flipping through a newspaper absentmindedly.
Both brothers had been tiptoeing around the subject of their sister ever since she disappeared, but the tension was growing harder to ignore. Their father was in the hospital, Ryan was sent away to Europe, and the weight of everything happening around them was crushing.
Zack leaned forward, resting his elbows on his knees, and finally broke the silence.
"Maybe we can ask Uncle Nick for help," Zack said suddenly, his voice hesitant but filled with a tinge of desperation.
Leo's head snapped up, his expression immediately dar
