The moment Adrian didn’t answer my question…
Everything changed.
I stood there with my hand still resting on the door, my phone tight in my grip, and one thought settled into my mind with a kind of quiet certainty that made my chest feel heavy.
He knows.
Not maybe.
Not possibly.
Adrian knew exactly who Daniel Vance was.
And he chose not to say it.
His footsteps eventually faded down the hallway.
But the silence he left behind felt louder than anything he could have said.
I stepped back slowly.
The room suddenly felt smaller.
Like the walls had shifted closer without me noticing.
I looked down at my phone again.
Daniel Vance.
Dead.
Case closed.
Accident.
The same word.
The same pattern.
My parents’ faces flashed through my mind.
The way they used to sit at the kitchen t
