Chapter 4

Then a sharp message alert cut through the quiet inside the car. The version of me in the video glanced down at the phone.

In that single second, the steering wheel slipped. The truck's headlights filled the screen, bright and blinding, like death itself.

The video froze on the glow of the phone screen. The message was painfully clear. [Bianca, I'm Christian's girlfriend. Leave him.]

The sender was Ruby.

"It was you..." My teeth chattered as I spoke. A bitter taste filled my mouth. "You sent that message. You got him killed."

"No. That's not real. It's fake," Ruby shouted.…