[POV: Yessica] [Location: Edinburgh — Kitchen]She heard Lewis's voice from upstairs.Not raised. That was worse, somehow. Lewis's anger lived in his control — the quieter he got, the more serious the situation. She came down to find him at the kitchen table with Rose, Rose's phone between them, both of them looking at something on the screen.Lewis looked up when she came in."Read the last ten messages," he said.She picked up the phone.The contact name said Jamie S. The messages were ordinary on the surface — where are you, come out, you're more fun than you pretend to be — the kind of text chain that looked like friendly banter until you looked at the timestamps. Eleven at night. Midnight. Two in the morning. And the tone underneath, familiar and pressuring in the way that had nothing to do with being fifteen.She checked the profile photo. A young man, early twenties at least. Confident smile."He said he was seventeen," Rose said. Her voice was defensive and tired at the same
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