All Chapters of We Never Really Said Goodbye: Chapter 31 - Chapter 40

That night, Laya and Tiar did not sleep.They sat across from each other at the apartment table, surrounded by fragments of information they had collected over the past few days. The hotel phone number. Kamelia’s name. Mike’s messages. Old photographs. And the mysterious number that kept sending warnings. Each piece seemed to bring them closer to the truth, yet somehow, the closer they got, the more dangerous everything became.Tiar picked up one of the photographs and studied it carefully.“If we want to know who’s controlling all of this,” he said quietly, “we need to make them move first.”Laya looked at him. “How?”“We make them believe we’ve really fallen apart.”Laya fell silent.The plan was simple, but the risk was anything but. From tomorrow onward, they would pretend to distance themselves. Tiar would stop coming to her apartment. Their messages would become less frequent. They would avoid meeting, and if they

That night, Laya and Tiar stayed awake, surrounded by everything they had collected so far: the hotel number, Kamelia’s name, Mike’s messages, old photographs, and the anonymous number that had been warning them to stop digging. “If we want whoever is behind this to make a mistake,” Tiar said, studying the evidence, “we need to make them think we’ve fallen apart.” The plan was risky but simple. They would distance themselves publicly, reduce their messages, and stop meeting for a while. If someone had been watching them, they needed that person to believe their relationship was over. At the same time, they would quietly trace the number connected to the hotel. Neither of them expected Kamelia to make the first move. The next afternoon, Tiar received a message. Can we talk? Just once. He ignored it until another message appeared. I know something about the night Laya disappeared.

The name on the screen stayed between us. I looked at Tiar, but he was still staring at the number beneath Mike’s name, as if looking long enough could somehow change what he was seeing.“Are you sure?” I asked.“I’ve seen this number before.”My stomach tightened. “But this doesn’t prove anything.”“I know.”“He could have contacted Adrian for something completely unrelated.”“I know.”“Then why do you look like that?”Tiar finally looked at me. “Because I don’t know what to believe anymore.”His answer should have frightened me. Instead, it made me feel strangely relieved. At least he wasn’t pretending to know everything.We decided not to contact Mike. If someone had been watching us, confronting him now would only warn whoever was behind everything.The next morning, Tiar called the hotel employee again. He asked about the old records, especially Adrian’s information. There was onl

“Who gave this to you?” Tiar’s question stayed between us. I stared at the small object in my hand, trying to hold on to the memory that had suddenly returned. “I remember someone giving it to me,” I said quietly. “But I can’t remember her name.” “Her?” I nodded. “She was a woman.” Tiar looked at me carefully. “You’re sure?” “I think so.” I closed my eyes again, trying to reach deeper into the memory. I could see a hallway. The light was dim. Someone stood in front of me, holding the same small object. “Keep this somewhere safe.” I remembered the voice now. “Why?” The woman had smiled. “You might need it someday.” My eyes opened. Tiar was watching me. “What happened after that?” “I don’t know.” “Nothing else?”

We met Kamelia the following afternoon.She was already sitting inside a quiet café when Tiar and I arrived. She looked different from the last time I had seen her. There was no confidence in her expression, no trace of the woman who had once seemed so certain that she could take Tiar away from me. Instead, she looked tired, almost as if she had been waiting for this conversation for a long time.When she saw us, she didn’t ask why we were there.“I knew you would eventually find me,” she said.I stopped in front of the table.“Since when?”Kamelia looked at me for a moment. “Since I realized you had started remembering.”Tiar pulled out a chair for me before sitting beside me.“You knew Laya before she knew you,” he said.Kamelia’s eyes lowered.“Yes.”The answer was simple.Too simple.My chest tightened.“Why didn’t you tell me?”“Because I knew y