When Emily returned to the hospital that afternoon, she found Alex sitting on the couch, his eyes glued to the iPad in his hands. As she entered the room, his gaze shifted toward her, and she immediately sensed something different in his expression. The warmth from earlier in the day were replaced by a glimpse of sadness, even anger, simmering just beneath the surface.
Alex had been reading through a police report—the file on the accident that had taken his parents' lives decades ago. It was a story he'd lived through but never fully understood. The official account, now splayed out in front of him, only raised more questions. According to the report, his father had been driving the car, with his mother in the passenger seat, when they veered into the wrong lane and collided head-on with a transport truck. Both of his parents had been killed on impact, the paramedics confirming their deaths at the scene.
