Chapter 5

It was a call from the nursing home.

I felt a chill run down my spine. The thing I feared most was receiving a call from the nursing home in the middle of the night. It never meant anything good.

"Ms. Wyatt! Something's wrong. Brenda... she's disappeared!" The nurse's frantic voice hit me like a bucket of ice water.

I stood frozen, my ears buzzing. "What do you mean she's missing?"

The nurse replied, "We just found her room empty. The cameras caught her leaving, but she never came back. We're searching for her right now..."

The phone slipped from…