Chapter 25

Three years… More than a thousand days had passed. It was enough time for a city to reinvent itself, for a person to be remade, for some wounds to scab over while others fester, turning into poison. After the car accident, Spencer was unconscious for two weeks. When he finally woke up, his body was left with severe aftereffects. Recovery would take a long, grueling time. He seemed incapable of feeling pain. The moment his condition stabilized even slightly, he threw himself back into the search, relentless and obsessive. But after that missed encounter in the border town, Suzanne vanished completely, as if she had evaporated from the world. There were no reliable leads left. Spencer grew quieter. He poured most of his energy into work. Under his iron-fisted leadership, Price Group expanded even further than it had three years earlier. However, anyone who knew him well could see it. Spencer had grown harder to approach, sharper around the edges, and the exhaustion in his eyes onl