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“Ms. Raynott, your flight is in two hours,” her secretary said, approaching the door with a sense of urgency in her voice.

“Great, thank you, Lizzy. Let’s get ready and pack our things.” Anna snapped back to reality, her mind racing with the weight of everything that lay ahead.

There was a brief pause before Lizzy, Anna's secretary, still standing by the door, hesitated. “I’m sorry, Ms. Raynott? You mean us? Are we going to London together?”

Anna turned, her expression unreadable, but a flicker of something passed through her eyes. “Yes, Lizzy. I’m not going alone on this one. We need to move quickly, and I trust you’ll be ready.”

Lizzy’s eyes widened for a moment, but she nodded. “Of course, Ms. Raynott. I’ll make the necessary arrangements right away.”

……

Anna sat on the plane, gazing out of the window as the city lights below blurred into the darkness. The hum of the engines was a steady backdrop to the storm of thoughts swirling in her mind. She just needed to figure out one more thing — one final missing piece — and everything would fall into place.

Amelia’s disappearance, Julian’s death, the missing chapter… it was all connected. She could feel it. But the answers still hovered just out of reach, like a puzzle with one crucial piece missing.

She exhaled and leaned back against the seat, her fingers tapping absently on the armrest. This journey to London would not be easy.

As she gazed into the night sky, memories began to surface, unspooling like an old film reel.