Now, in hindsight, he realized how wrong he had been, But… did she really go this far because of it?
After returning home, Elias slumped dejectedly onto the sofa. His eyes landed on a new message from Vera a selfie in the mirror. She wore cartoon pajamas on her upper body, and her bare legs were exposed beneath.
Elias glanced at the photo, but his reaction was indifferent. It all seemed so meaningless now
His only desire was to reach Mira. He couldn’t focus on anything else until he knew where she was. But how could he find her?
In a desperate attempt, Elias purchased a new phone card and used it to call Mira’s number. It rang once, twice, then… nothing. Still unreachable.
up,
This meant she had likely canceled her old number.
The realization made his stomach churn with fear. What if she hasn’t come back yet?
Elias‘ eyes wandered, and his gaze fell on the photo frame on the bedside table. It was upside down. He picked it
his fingers trembling slightly, and when he saw the image, his heart skipped a beat.
It was a high school photo of the two of them–but it had been sliced in half. Mira was gone from the picture, leaving only him.
His hands shook as he held the photo frame.
It hit him all at once–Mira wasn’t just angry. There was something more to this.
At that moment, his phone rang. It was the bureau, telling him to report back to the team the next day.
Elias barely slept that night, his mind racing with thoughts of Mira. By dawn, he had to head back to the bureau, and it wasn’t until the evening that he had a moment to himself.
“Captain Sullivan, do you know why Mira suddenly deleted me on Facebook?” Jasper appeared, phone in hand, looking confused. “I remember you said she was going to England on a business trip. I wanted to check out some photos she might have sent me from there, but now I can’t find anything. She deleted everything.
Elias‘ face darkened, his stomach tightening further.
Jasper scratched his head. “What’s going on? Did you two have a fight?”
“No,” Elias replied coldly, his voice tight. He turned away sharply.
As he walked off, a chilling realization hit him–if Mira didn’t show up soon, he might never find her.
Even if Mira had really gone to England, how would he ever find her exact whereabouts?
3.30 PM
Elias couldn’t help but entertain a glimmer of hope that perhaps Mira was just angry–angry for a while, but she
would come back once she had calmed down.
But after more than a week, that optimism began to crumble, and there was still no word from her
Elias could no longer sit still. After work, he rushed to the police station, his heart pounding in his chest He reported that his wife, Mira, had been missing for a month and had not returned home. He provided her ID number to the authorities.
The police quickly retrieved Mira’s personal information. The officer behind the desk looked at the screen and asked, “Mira’s current marital status is listed as divorced. Are you sure she is your wife?”
The words hit Elias like a punch to the gut. His breath caught in his chest, and a dizzying wave of disbelief swept
over him.
He leaned closer to the computer screen, his eyes locked on the word “divorced,” as if willing it to change. But it
didn’t.
This can’t be real.
“Impossible,” he murmured under his breath. “She and I aren’t divorced. We are… we are a serious husband and
wife!”
Elias shook his head in disbelief. His hand reached up to pinch his leg hard, trying to force himself awake from what felt like an impossible nightmare. But the pain only brought the cold, crushing truth.
Everything he thought he knew–the life they built, the promises they made–was unraveling before his eyes, and he had no idea how or why
