From Friends to Forever: Part Two

Previously

…That night, as George slept beside her, his breathing deep and steady, Kia lay awake, the locket cool against her skin. The fragments of information, the cryptic clues, the evasiveness of Allen – they all pointed to a truth that felt both terrifying and inevitable. She knew, with a certainty that chilled her to the bone, that the whispers of truth were growing louder, and soon, they would demand to be heard. The old pier, midnight, the exchange – it was all a prelude to a reckoning, a reckoning that was fast approaching. She closed her eyes, a silent prayer on her lips for the strength to face whatever was coming.