Cecilia remembered.
In the book, she set the table for a romantic dinner, eager to spend her first birthday with Derek after the wedding.
She waited all day long. Instead of her husband, she got a ping from her inbox—surveillance footage of Derek cheating with Amelia.
So she'd drunk herself stupid, planning to storm over and confront them. But when she got up, she stumbled and knocked the candles onto the tablecloth. The whole place went up in flames. She burned alive.
The memory of being devoured by fire hit her like a physical blow.
Cecilia trembled, shaking the pain from her mind, and looked at Derek, who was about to head out.
She called out, "Derek. Do you remember what September 8th is?"
Derek paused at the door and nodded. "Of course. It's Amelia's birthday."
So this was the
