Soup Shop Mystery
"Last month, he went back to his hometown. Every Saturday, he calls his parents there. In fact, we just got off the phone with him."
"That's impossible!" I snapped. "He hasn't contacted me for a month!"
"We asked him. He told us he's broken up with you."
My legs gave out. I collapsed into the chair, numb.
Deep down, I'd already accepted that possibility—that he had simply chosen not to reach out. But hearing it confirmed, so bluntly, shattered me all over again.
And now, I understood Captain Beckett's anger. He thought I was clinging to Edmund, unwilling to let go, and had fabricated this story about danger to trick the police into helping me track him down.
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