Ava was in shock, and she knew it. How else could she explain the strange detachment that had settled over her, turning the chaos around her into something distant and surreal? It felt like a daydream—a distorted, slow-motion nightmare she couldn't quite wake up from. She blinked, trying to make sense of it all, her eyes fixed on the scene unfolding before her.
Hannah was being dragged away by the police. Ava had expected many things when she challenged Hannah, a screaming match or possibly even a violent fight, to reveal the secrets that had hung like a dark cloud over them. But this? This was beyond anything she could have imagined.
