Chapter 18 - The Little BoxWhile investigators photographed the room...

One young officer found a tiny wooden box hidden beneath loose floorboards.
Inside...
Hundreds of folded notes.
I recognized my own handwriting.
Letters.
I'd written them over five years.
Letters to myself.
Whenever Oliver apologized.
Whenever I believed things would change.
I had hidden them.
Then forgotten.
The final letter simply read:
Emma,
If you ever find this...
leave.
May you like
He won't change.
I burst into tears.