Kylian
I met Renata at the office an hour after Isabella's message came through, four words that had sent my pulse racing the moment I read them. Vanessa confessed everything. Coming home.
"A cooperating witness this close to Adrian changes the entire shape of the case," Renata said, already pacing the length of my office by the time Isabella arrived, still visibly shaken from the meeting. "If she's willing to testify to what she witnessed on that balcony, corroborated by Ella's own account, that's no longer circumstantial. That's an eyewitness confession to attempted murder."
"She's terrified of Adrian," Isabella said, sitting down heavily, the composure she'd held through the meeting finally beginning to c***k now that she was somewhere safe enough to let it. "He threatened her, appar
