MIA’S POV
My fingers froze around the phone.
For several seconds, I just stared at the message on my screen.
“…was wearing the same bracelet Lily always wears.”
The words felt unreal.
It was like my mind refused to process them.
No.
That didn’t make sense.
Lily had worn that bracelet for years. It was a delicate silver chain with a small charm shaped like a wolf’s head. I had seen it countless times while growing up.
It felt like part of her identity.
But Ethan’s message kept echoing in my head.
The attacker.
The man who tried to kill me.
He confessed again, he finally remembered another detail
My breathing slowed as a memory came back.
That night.
The darkness.
The suffocating fear.
I remembered who he was talking about the one that begged me to release h
