AMELIA received a message from Julian early the next morning without warning or even context. At first, she was surprised and tried to place where she had even heard this name before realizing that he was one of Charles' friends. His message piqued her interest because it was just a forty-seven seconds long voice note with a single line of text above it that read:
*You need to hear this. I'm sorry it took me this long to say the truth.*
Amelia stared at the notification for a moment. Julian... Charles's friend. She had met him twice, briefly, the kind of peripheral figure you acknowledged but never really taken notice of. She couldn't imagine why he would have her number, let alone be sending her anything.
She pressed play.
The voice on the recording wasn't Julian's. It was Marcus, ano
