I wasn’t going to confront either of them until I knew the truth.
Because whatever they were hiding, it was clearly more serious than I had imagined.
I waited until Vanessa left the parking lot.
She walked toward a side entrance of the building, disappeared inside, and didn’t come out again for nearly twenty minutes.
When she finally emerged, she was carrying a smaller envelope.
She climbed into her car and drove away.
I followed her for several blocks before she pulled into a coffee shop parking lot.
I parked farther down the street and watched as she entered.
Then my phone rang.
It was Eliam.
For a moment, I simply stared at his name on the screen.
I almost let it go to voicemail.
Instead, I answered.
“Hey, sweetheart,” he said cheerfully. “How’s your morning?”
I closed my eyes.
“Fine. How’s work?”
There was a brief pause.
“Busy. Really busy.”
I looked through the windshield at the coffee shop where my sister had just disappeared.
