Amelia had been putting off the visit for weeks, some quiet, unexamined fear keeping her from following through on the idea Nolan had first planted the day they'd discussed her father's business card. But with the ground beneath her and Damian finally feeling steadier, she found herself ready, finally, to seek out the closure she'd been avoiding. "Are you sure about this?" Nolan asked, driving them both out to the quiet suburb where her father's old business partner, a man named Frank Alvarez, had retired years earlier. "You don't have to do this today. Or at all, honestly, if it feels like too much." "I need to," Amelia said, watching the familiar landscape of her childhood slide past the window streets she hadn't driven through in years, a neighborhood that held more memories than she'd realized she still carried. "I spent so long only knowing pieces of my father's story. I want to understand the man behind the business card, behind the compliance report. Not just the innocent by
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