While I was on vacation with my cousins, my phone lit up with one message: “Get on a plane home. Don’t tell your parents you’re coming.” When I landed, an attorney and two investigators

house I grew up in sat at the end of a quiet street in Bellevue, hidden behind two maple trees my father had planted when I was seven. He used to tell me they would grow up with me. In every first-day-of-school photo, they stood behind me, thin at first, then taller, then wide enough to shade the driveway.

Daniel parked two blocks away.

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