A Dangerous Coincidence

Clara

I stood there, staring at the old man across from me.

Mr. Thorne looked at me with that same smile I’d seen back at the cafe, back when he was just an old man with a newspaper. But now that I knew who he really was, everything felt different.

For a moment, I didn’t know how to act. He looked kind, and genuine, but the way his eyes lingered on me made the air awkward. I shifted my weight from