Three years had passed since that fateful night — the night Laura’s life ended and Mark’s new one began. With her fortune now his, and Angela by his side, Mark had built the life he had always imagined. From the outside, it was a picture of success: a sleek penthouse that kissed the skyline, lavish dinners under chandeliers, and parties where laughter sparkled like champagne.
But perfection is often an illusion, and Mark was beginning to see the cracks.
At first, he told himself he deserved it all. Laura had made him miserable — controlling, cold, distant. That’s what he told himself every time guilt threatened to surface. Angela had been his escape, his light, his freedom. Together, they had rewritten their story, burying the past beneath layers of luxury.
But over time, Mark noticed something different in Angela’s eyes. Beneath her beauty and charm lurked a glint he couldn’t quite place — something calculating, something cold.
One evening, as the city glittered beneath them, Angela swirled her wine and asked softly, “Mark, have you ever wondered if maybe there’s more to life than this? More than just… money and comfort?”
He chuckled nervously. “Of course. But we have everything we could ever want, don’t we?”
Angela smiled, her gaze drifting toward the horizon. “Yes. Everything we wanted… but at what cost?”
Mark’s grip on his glass tightened. “That’s in the past,” he said sharply. “Let’s not bring it up again.”
But Angela’s expression didn’t change. “The past has a way of catching up, darling.”
And that’s when his phone buzzed.
He glanced down, the color draining from his face. A single message glared back at him:
I know what you did.
The air thickened. His heart pounded. When he looked up, Angela was already watching him, her lips curved into a smile that was anything but reassuring.
“Don’t you want to know who it’s from?” she asked sweetly.
He swallowed hard. “How do you know about that?”
She shrugged, standing to refill her wine. “Maybe your ghosts are finally waking up.”
That night, Mark barely slept. The message replayed in his mind like a curse. And for the first time in years, he began to wonder if Laura was truly gone — or if her memory was coming back to claim him.