The case had been closed in just four weeks after the police had met nothing but dead ends. Meanwhile, Nathan had sworn he would never stop searching for her.
All of it had been a performance, and it made me wonder why.
What reason did he have to kill Bella?
I wiped my tears away and opened the autopsy report, knowing the pain of reading it was the only way to get answers.
The report stated that she was not harmed in any way, save for a few bruises from the struggle and one missing organ—her heart.
Confused, I searched through the other files on the flash drive until I found my sister's medical report and an organ donor form with her signature on it.
Alongside it was the medical report of the recipient, and my blood froze in my veins when I read the woman's name.
Katherine Salford, Nathan's ex-girlfriend.
Katherine had come back into his life a year ago to spend what she had thought were her last days with him.
By some miracle, a donor match had been found, and I remember the joy I had felt when we visited her post-surgery.
I had placed my head on her chest, listening to her brand-new heartbeat, not knowing it belonged to the woman I had been desperately searching for.