Chapter 5

Beatrice didn't even register me. She just drifted past like I wasn't there, heading straight toward the beach.

I turned to watch her go.

Her thin frame looked small and heartbreaking against the bright sunlight.

From everything I remembered, Beatrice was the one who got to their meeting spot first.

The timing was exact.

I stopped in my tracks.

All I had to do was call out her name or follow her, and I could stop everything.

But why would I?

In my old life, these two had destroyed me. They got Cecilia killed.

I owed them nothing.

I turned…