Chapter 32: Rusty Rings.

Violent Virgilson.

It can be true. He killed my father. Vincent Valentino Virenson — the man I love with every fibre in me.

I love him more than life itself.

But the detective’s words kept playing in my head, hammering against the walls of my heart like relentless storms. “Miss Virgilson, I’ve confirmed everything. Vincent Valentino Virenson was behind the wheel the night your father died…”

I had read those words over and over, each repetition tearing at my ...