Priya remained close enough to make it clear this was not a romantic reunion; it was a difficult meeting between two people whose history had been manipulated.

Camilla began with the last day she saw me.

She had planned to tell me she was pregnant that weekend.

Before she could, Victor summoned her to his office and confronted her with accusations that her father had mismanaged money in a business partnership.

He offered a settlement in exchange for disappearing.

She refused.

Over the following days, she said, she was shown a message bearing my name, telling her our engagement was over and instructing her to leave the city.

Her calls to me were blocked.