Edith paused, her hand still on the letter in her purse. Caden was still talking on the phone, so Edith carefully unfolded the letter.

“I figured you would find this letter when the time was right,” Her father had written under her name.

Edith was overwhelmed with a flood of emotions, her hands shaking slightly as she read her father’s last message to her.

Yet, his letter made her blood run cold.

Her father began by reminding Edith she was a smart girl, was a ...