Several
important documents were missing as well.
I stood staring at the empty space, barely able to understand what had happened.
Then I Found a Second Photograph
I was preparing to call the police when something on a nearby table caught my attention.
It was another photograph.
This one did not show me.
Daniel was in the picture.
But he wasn’t alone.
Standing beside him was a man I recognized immediately.
My son.
I stared at the photograph in disbelief.
It had apparently been taken several weeks earlier, long before Daniel
approached me inside the bar.
I turned it over.
Someone had written an address and a time on the back.
There was also one sentence.
“Your son set all of this up.”
The Meeting at the Bar Had Never Been an Accident
Suddenly, every detail from the previous evening felt different.
Daniel hadn’t simply noticed an older woman sitting alone and decided to introduce himself.