Leo offered logical explanations, but Adam barely heard him. The unknown felt too heavy, too urgent to dismiss. Adam couldn’t understand why she would leave in such a hurry without explaining things.
Adam opened Clara’s old conversations again, rereading each thread with obsessive precision. A few vague messages caught his eye—mentions of “meeting soon,” “same place,” “don’t worry.” Innocuous sentences, but now they glowed with ominous implication. Were they meant for someone else?