Chapter 12

Jamie sped recklessly on the roads all the way home while Nathan's words played in an endless loop in his mind. Olivia had left the country to join a project that was based abroad. She had never mentioned such a thing to him. He kept dialing Olivia's number, but the line kept going dead without anyone picking up. It didn't take long before he finally made it back to his shared home with Olivia. He entered the familiar string of numbers countless times into the password lock, but he was met with an error message each time, notifying him that the password was wrong. A long time passed before he suddenly remembered that he had changed the password to his and Daisy's birthdays. He stiffly entered the unfamiliar numbers into the password lock and pushed the door open. It felt as if the interior of the house had been preserved in time ever since he left that day. The living room still had signs indicating that a scuffle had taken place. The broken mirror shards were still scattered all o