Adele
The shock of that unexpected message I received still hadn’t worn off, even after two full days.
It lingered in the back of my mind like an unsolved riddle, making it impossible to think straight. No matter how many times I replayed it in my head, I kept circling back to the same question—who could have sent it?
A rational person would have immediately pointed fingers at Cole.
He was the obvious suspect, right?
Except he wasn’t.
When the message came in, he had been standing right in front of me, watching in real-time as my face twisted in shock. He had even asked what was wrong, just as confused as I was. And besides, his name didn’t start with an “N.”
Unless… did he have a second name I didn’t know about?
I was so lost in thought that I barely heard the sound of footste
