KADE

“I know it feels very weird right now, but we have to trust the police and hope they can catch the killers soon. That poor kid and his mother deserve justice.”

My mother’s voice pulled me out of my thoughts. For a few minutes, I had relived that day, and it filled me with a wave of uneasiness. The air that morning felt like something had changed drastically, and I dreaded what was to come.

At the time, I regarded Ella fainting as a perfect example of why she was seen as the weak link and even made snide comments about it.

But with everything I had heard from...