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~Sabrina's POV
I was still basking in the thrill of what I'd just discovered when my phone buzzed again. Another message.
This time, it was from the private investigator.
"I dug a little deeper into Bella's whereabouts in the years following the incident with her father. Found something interesting. Attaching files now."
My pulse quickened. I opened the message and began scrolling.
There it was.
Photos. Records. A name change. A timeline. One word jumped out at me like a flashing light in the dark:
Brothel.
My lips parted, but no sound came out.
She worked in a brothel?
I blinked rapidly, rereading the line just to be sure I wasn't misunderstanding. The timeline matched. Right after the chaos in her family, when her father disappeared and her mother apparently checked into a psychiatric facility for a while… Bella had gone underground. And this was where she ended up.
For a split second, there was silence in my mind. Just… blank space.
