Chapter 70

In the hotel room, Mountside County. After Ethan sat on the edge of the bed and diligently blow-dried her hair, Stella lay on his lap without getting up. She casually picked up her phone from the side and noticed the recent call log she had just hung up. Lately, she had been receiving these silent prank calls, each time from different numbers, but she hadn't paid much attention to them. Closing the call log, she opened X. At the top was a photo taken during the daytime visit to the graves. On Moonshadow Mountain, scattered graves dotted the landscape. Director Moore used to live in the village at the foot of the mountain. Before passing away, she had told Shane that she wanted to be buried on Moonshadow Mountain so he could overlook the direction of the orphanage. When they arrived, some thorny weeds had grown near the grave of Director Moore. Ethan was afraid she would cut herself, so he bent down and cleared the weeds himself. His movements were not very skilled, but his express