"The Kelloway family, we can't wait too much longer."
This news, to Rebecca Kelloway, was undoubtedly a bolt from the blue.
Thinking back to the text message she had just received, her heart sank little by little, as if plunging into an ice cellar.
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Joanna Lawrence and Ashton Heath left the cinema, and it was already half past ten in the evening.
Thinking of flying back to Frankfurt the next day, they didn't do anything else after watching the movie and drove straight home.
On the way back, Joanna, who was always thinking of Aria Rowlett, sent her a message on Twitter.
She waited for more than ten minutes, but Aria still didn't reply.
Joanna felt a bit uneasy and made another phone call.
The phone rang four or five times before it was answered.
