CHAPTER 88

"I knew my sister," Liz said, her voice barely above a whisper, thick with raw emotion.

"She was strong. Unbelievably strong. She could never—never—get hurt by something as trivial as an accident. Let alone die from it. And your father… he was no ordinary man either."

Her eyes glistened as she stared at a distant point, lost in the memories.

"They were careful, always. Always watching, always ready. There's no way they could've been caught off guard like that."

She swallowed hard, as if forcing down a lump in her throat, before continuing, "So I looked. Hard."

Her fingers trembled as she clenched her hands into fists on her lap. "I turned over every stone, asked every contact, searched through every damn file I could get my hands on. But all I found was…"

She exhaled a shuddering breath. "A note. Just a simple message, left behind as if she knew this day would come."