For the past three months, every night when I lay beside my husband, I noticed a strange, nauseating smell… And every time I tried to clean the bed, he would get angry. Today, while he’s away on a business trip, I cut open the mattress—and what I found nearly made my heart stop

A phone.

The screen cracked.

A blue case.

Ana stared at it—and a cold chill ran down her spine.

She recognized that phone.

She had seen it before.

It didn’t belong to Miguel.

It belonged to…

“Emily…”

The name slipped from her lips like a dying breath.

Emily Carter.

A name she had tried to forget for two years.

3. The Missing Woman
Two years earlier, in Phoenix, a disappearance had shaken the area.

A woman named Emily Carter vanished without a trace.

She worked in sales—coincidentally, in the same field as Miguel.