For the next 2 weeks, Grant searched for me like a madman. He took a long leave from work and sat at his computer from morning till night, combing through flights, train bookings, and hotel check-ins.
He even drove out to the small town where I grew up and knocked on doors asking about me. But my parents had passed away 5 years earlier, and I had no other family left there.
He tracked down my only two friends too, and both of them slammed the door in his face the second they saw him. I had disappeared from his world completely, and he couldn't dig up a single trace of me.
Grant was slumped in the empty living room when he noticed the crumpled note in the trash again. He bent down, picked it up, and smoothed it out.
7 years, paid in full. From now on, we're even.
That was when he final
