Semua Bab BETRAYAL: The Day I Died.: Bab 61 - Bab 64

“Umm… yes, that’s what you told me,” I said, my voice softer than I meant it to be. It felt like my throat was closing in, every word scraping out as if I had swallowed sand.The officer across from me leaned forward, his dark eyes steady. “Did you do anything?”For a second, my world stopped. The words slammed into me like a heavy weight. My palms went clammy, and a sharp heat spread through my chest. My mind was on fire, every thought flashing at once. Could he see through me? Could he tell?Before I could even open my mouth, Benjamin’s voice cut through the silence. “Mind the kind of questions you ask, officer.” His tone was cold, controlled, but I saw the way his hand tightened around the armrest of the couch.The officer’s head turned slowly toward him. “It’s all part of the investigation, Mr. Grey.” His voice didn’t rise, but the firmness in it made the room feel smaller.I tried to sit still, but my heart was pounding so loudly I was sure it echoed in the room. My chest rose an

I lay on the bed with my eyes wide open, staring at the ceiling as if the cracks and faint lines above me could give me the answers I had been searching for. The house was quiet, too quiet, and yet my head wouldn’t stop buzzing.So much has changed since I came back. Sometimes I wondered if I had really been ready to return at all, or if I had only forced myself because of Daisy. Nothing felt steady anymore. Everything around me kept shaking, pulling me in different directions until I felt I might collapse.I thought about how Benjamin and I had been separated, how the DNA report had crushed us both, and how the years we lost still haunted me. And then the truth came out, that everything we went through had been a mistake, that we had suffered all that pain for nothing. For five years, I had carried a wound in my chest that never healed, only to find out it was built on a lie. Coming back to him was supposed to feel like relief, like being whole again. But instead, it felt like walkin