The person on the other end quickly gave him the address, and Sebastian hung up at once before starting the car. He did not know why he was going to find Wendy. Perhaps he simply wanted to see her. It had been a long time since he last had. The last time he saw her, she had been curled in the corner of the basement, lips cracked, face deathly pale, looking at him with eyes full of hatred. By the time he arrived outside Adrian's building, night had already fallen. Sebastian got out of the car and stood downstairs, staring up at the lit apartment window for more than ten minutes, unable to decide whether he should go up. In the end, he started toward the entrance, only to stop abruptly when he noticed two figures in the small garden ahead. Wendy sat on a bench wrapped in a cream-colored

