The article went live at 6 a.m. on a Friday.
I found it the way most people found things they weren’t looking for, through someone else. A colleague texted a link at 7:43 with no message attached, just the URL, which was its own kind of message. I was on my second coffee, Ethan already at school, the morning organized and moving the way mornings moved when I had prepared them properly the night before. I opened the link.
*The De Luca Ghost Wife Returns: Sources Close to the Family Reveal Seraphina Vale’s Real Agenda.*
I read it once. The way I read anything clinical, completely, without reaction, gathering information before assessment.
It was well-constructed, for what it was. Anonymous sources, which meant either one source well-positioned or several small ones compiled by someone wh
