Ella
My phone vibrated again in my hand, the screen lighting up in the dim interior of the car like a warning flare.
**Paige:** *Ella, do you want to know what really happened with the fire back then? I can tell you the truth…*
For a moment, I didn’t breathe.
The car hummed softly beneath me as Hugh drove, the city lights streaking past the tinted windows. Paulina sat beside me, glancing over every now and then with a worried crease between her brows. Neither of them noticed how my fingers had gone cold around my phone, or how my pulse suddenly roared in my ears like an approaching storm.
The fire.
Even after all these years, that single word still had the power to drag me back into smoke and screams, into heat so intense it felt like my skin was melting off my bones. It was the nigh
