When the Gun Falls Silent, the Past Fades Away

Summary

Her disappearance was sudden, unexpected – my fiancée, vanished the night before our wedding, just hours before she was due to hand over crucial evidence in a high-stakes smuggling case. Even when the authorities declared her fallen in the line of duty, I refused to believe it. For five long years, I searched.

Then, I saw her. Standing beside a forensic expert hired by the very police department that had declared her dead, her belly subtly rounded, her eyes holding nothing but the blankness of a stranger.