The drive to the outskirts of town felt longer than usual, though the road was familiar to Mr. Andrei Williams—far too familiar. It was a route he had taken as a child, a road that led to the family’s old abandoned property, a place that once carried memories of summer evenings, family jokes, and naïve laughter. But tonight, that same road felt different. It carried dread. It carried uncertainty. And it carried the burning fear that Elena might be somewhere beyond one of those dark, ...