She kissed his cheek and led him back inside.

For the rest of the evening, Graham watched the woman he intended to marry. Vanessa laughed with his board members. She embraced his elderly aunt. She complimented a server who had nearly dropped a tray.

She rested one hand lovingly against Graham’s back whenever a photographer approached. She was the woman he knew. Yet she was also the woman Lily feared.

Both things could not be true.

By midnight the guests were gone. Graham sat alone in his study, still in his tuxedo. The engagement photographs were already circulating online; in every image, he and Vanessa looked impossibly happy.

He searched for unexplained progressive hearing loss. The results were filled with infections, tumors, genetic disorders, and autoimmune diseases.