NICHOLAS’S POV

The kind of silence that has invaded this home since the kids went missing has been unbearable.

Ava and I have been living in it for days now, it makes your skin itch and slows your heart beat, stretches time and crushes hope.

My children were still gone.

Despite the all round investigations, the security cameras, the private detectives I hired from three different countries, there were no solid leads—only theories.

Each one even more ridiculous than the previous that I ...