We sat across from each other in a small room.
Neither of us spoke at first.
Then I asked:
“Who are you?”
Her answer hit harder than anything else so far.
“I was supposed to marry Thomas.”
Everything inside me paused.
She told me everything after that.
Slowly. Carefully. Like every word mattered.
That day—the day my parents died—
Thomas was driving.
My father was in the passenger seat.
My mother was in the back.
They were on their way to meet her.
There was a curve in the road.
The car lost control.
And everything ended in seconds.
