Grace drove to the piano club and frantically searched for Amanda. The clerk told her that Amanda had quitted her job abruptly this morning. Grace was taken aback when she heard the news. X did it so quickly that she was caught off guard...

At this point in the story, X is Patrick. Something came back to her. She was walking back to Scott's house that night when she met him outside the greenway at the villa. He was kind enough to tell her about Bryan. Later, after the talk, her cell phone suddenly rang and she got a call from Lily. He heard her ask for the number of...