#Chapter 116: The Final Diary Entry

Lucian’s POV Standing inside of Aria’s trashed bedroom, I couldn’t understand what I was seeing. Ben was in the doorway behind me, also looking around. The pictures had been torn from the walls and thrown across the room. The mattress had been overturned. The desk drawers had been yanked out, their contents spilled over the floor. My immediate thought was for the diary, such a precious insight into Aria’s mind. Was it lost forever too? “How did this happen?” I asked. “Sheila was taken into custody at the hospital. She should have never returned here.” “The housekeeper noticed the lock on the door had been tampered with, and she decided to investigate,” Ben said. “There’s no telling when Sheila actually entered here and did this.” I tried to think back to the last time I had entered this room. It had been a bit before the incident at the hospital. Had Sheila waited for me to be distracted with something, then doubled back to destroy the room? I supposed it didn’t matter wh