Requiem of a Broken Heart

Chapter 854:

Without wasting another moment, Natalia quickly dialed Brian’s number.

Her fingers trembled as she held the phone to her ear.

She had no idea if he would answer—after all, when Rachel married Allan, Brian had disappeared. No one knew where he had gone. Ronald had mentioned something about an island—a place where Brian had gone to hide, to escape his own pain.

Natalia understood. Brian had left to avoid disrupting the wedding, forcing himself into isolation, hoping to forget.

But just as she began to lose hope, the phone rang one more time, and then Brian’s voice came through.

“Brian, Rachel is missing. She found out about Jeffrey’s death today… She was shattered, and now… we don’t know where she is. We’ve searched everywhere…”

Before she could finish, she heard the roar of an engine, and Brian’s voice was sharp and urgent. “I’m on my way. Keep talking.”

to be alone with him for a while. When they checked

dad for help, and the police are

you searched the surrounding area?” Brian

starts

we’ve covered

used to visit?” he pressed,

“Also checked.”

I’ll look elsewhere.

“Okay.”

scan the areas where Rachel might be, but they didn’t find

memory flickered—Rachel’s grandmother’s

place of warmth in Rachel’s childhood, a place where she and Jeffrey had spent

was alive, and life had felt simple,

gut told him that Rachel might have returned to that