Anna sat on the edge of the bed, staring at the old family photograph of her, Kevin, and their young daughter, Emma. It was a reminder of a life before everything had shattered. Before the accident. Before she was left alone, carrying the weight of a broken family.
Her fingers trembled as she traced the frame of the picture, a tear slipping down her cheek. She hadn’t allowed herself to cry in months, not since the day Kevin’s life was taken away in that cruel twist of fate. The car accident. It seemed so simple. A crash, a coma, and a hospital room filled with wires and machines. But that was before the phone call.
The phone call that had shattered everything she thought she knew.
Anna had been sitting at the kitchen table, pouring herself a cup of coffee when the phone rang. The caller ID showed Kevin's name. Her heart stopped. She had thought it was a mistake, some glitch in the system. Kevin had been in a coma for six months. He couldn’t call her. Couldn’t speak to her. But the phone rang, and for a moment, she allowed herself to hope.
"Kevin?" she whispered into the receiver, her voice barely audible.
But instead of Kevin’s familiar voice, a man’s voice, cold and unfamiliar, filled her ear.
"Anna," the man said, his tone full of authority. "You don’t know who I am, but I know everything about you and your husband. And I know what happened the night of the accident."
The words sent a chill down her spine. Anna’s grip tightened around the phone, her pulse quickening.
"What do you mean? What do you know?" she demanded, her voice rising.
"Your husband was involved in something... something you don’t know about. He’s not the man you think he is. And I suggest you find out the truth before it’s too late."
The call ended abruptly, leaving Anna staring at the phone in disbelief. The line had gone dead, but her heart was still racing. Who was that man? And what did he mean by "before it’s too late"?
Anna’s mind raced, replaying the conversation over and over again. Kevin had always been the quiet, reliable man she had married. But what if there was more to his accident than she had ever imagined? What if this mysterious man was right? What if the life they had built together had been a lie?
She couldn’t ignore it. She couldn’t let it go. Anna knew that her world, already broken and fragile, was about to shatter even further. The truth, whatever it was, was out there. And she was determined to find it.
