The elevator doors closed behind Evelyn, leaving the faint hum of the office fading into silence. Her thoughts were still tangled in the words Soren had said, looping through her mind like a haunting refrain. She killed me. Those three words carried more weight than anything she’d heard in years. The truth of his past now pulsed in rhythm with her own—two souls scarred, two lives rewritten, and one secret that could break everything.

When she reached her desk, the first thing she did was ...