With shaky hands, Adam agreed to start seeing a therapist. He needed to understand how he’d blinded himself so completely, how he’d turned a simple heartbreak into a terrifying mystery and silence into imagined danger. Healing felt impossibly far away, but he knew it was necessary.
He eventually apologized to the police officers, his voice breaking with every word, grateful Clara was safe but utterly devastated by the final, unchangeable end of their relationship. There was no more mystery left—only a painful truth he’d refused to face until it was too late.
