Tham Mac Ngon looked at the agreement for a long time. Then he picked up the pen. His signature landed beneath mine. Just like that, six years…

Ryan went silent. Then his voice dropped. “Emma, don’t say anything to them until I get there.” I looked at the two investigators sitting across from me….

Laura was waiting downstairs when I left. She didn’t ask why my eyes were swollen. She simply opened the passenger door. “Hospital first?” I nodded. During the…

Luc Lang Han was still staring at the jade pendant. I almost wanted to ask whether five years in the mountains had made him forget the structure…

No one laughed. The officer released my wrist so quickly it was as if my skin had burned him. “I… Professor Hayes, I didn’t know—” “Obviously.” I…

The second call went unanswered. So did the third. By the fourth, I stopped calling. I stood beneath the theater awning, watching couples hurry through the rain….

Ethan’s fear lasted only a second. Then he lowered his eyes and reached for his wine. But I had already seen it. Margaret laughed again. “Well? How…

At eleven thirty that night, Lục Chinh opened the refrigerator. There were three containers inside. Braised beef. Vegetable soup. And the dumplings I had made two days…

My fingers remained frozen above the black memory stick. “What did Dad discover?” My mother didn’t answer immediately. Instead, she pushed the envelope toward me. “Read this…