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The door was already open when Sera arrived at the archive. She stopped in the corridor, one hand...
The letter arrived on a Tuesday, which was wrong. Elena had specified Mondays. She'd been very...
The letter arrived on a Tuesday, which was strange, because Mara had been dead for six...
The letter arrived on a Tuesday, which Nora had always considered an unlucky day. She'd been...
The envelope had no return address. Just her name — Sera Voss — written in handwriting she...
The photograph arrived on a Tuesday, slipped under my apartment door with no envelope, no return address.
Just her face. My sister's face. Emily, who'd been dead for three years.
But here's the thing—the photo was dated two days ago.
I turned it over, hands shaking. On the back, scrawled in handwriting I'd recognize anywhere: The Riverside Café. Noon tomorrow. Come alone.
Emily's handwriting. Emily's writing quirks—the way she crossed her T's, the slight leftward slant. The forensic examiner had been certain when they'd identified her body after the fire. Dental records, her jewelry, everything matched.
Everything matched.
I looked at the photo again. The woman stood beside a fountain I didn't recognize, wearing a green jacket Emily never owned. Her hair was shorter, darker. But those eyes—hazel with that distinctive gold ring around the iris—those were hers.
My phone buzzed. Unknown number.
"Don't ignore this, Alex." The voice was distorted, mechanical. "She needs you to remember what really happened that night. The fire wasn't an accident. And Emily knew too much about the wrong people."
"Who is this?"
"Tomorrow. Riverside Café. Noon. If you want answers about your sister—the real answers—you'll be there."
The line went dead.
I stared at the photo until my vision blurred. Three years of grief, three years of accepting she was gone. And now this.
The question wasn't whether I'd go.
The question was whether I'd survive finding out the truth.
My fingers traced the edge of the photograph. In the background, barely visible, a figure stood in the shadows watching her. Watching Emily. Or whoever she was.
And that figure was watching me now. I could feel it.
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