Chapter 149

Chapter 149: Clara's POV

The phone slipped from my hand and clattered onto the hardwood floor.

I stared at it lying there, screen still glowing with the detective's number, like it was a bomb that had just detonated in my living room.

Dead.

Tessa Croft was dead.

And I was one of the last people to see him alive.

My brain couldn't process it. Couldn't make sense of the words the detective had just