Chapter 21

It was almost seven when Aria arrived at the condo she had never visited after her mother died. But she could not think properly. All she needed was a place to think and grasp everything she had read in the file.

She could feel her heart slowly crushing, and the tears she did not want to fall were running down her cheeks, with her vision blurred as she stopped in the parking lot of the condominium building. Using the back of her palm, he wiped away the tears. Her heart was bleeding, and it was too painful that she had difficulty breathing.

Then she closed the car door, gripped her shoulder bag tightly in her hand, and tears welled up in her eyes again. In a long stride toward the entrance, the guard greeted her, but she ignored him, her head low. Praying that no one was in the elevator, and it was as if heaven had heard her prayer.

Entering the elevator, she leaned her back, and her body weakened. She was blinking her eyes not to drip tears, her teeth biting on her