Couldn't Bear To Leave You Alone

Arya's heart skipped a beat. Laura Jenkins. Her Nana's name. It couldn't be a coincidence. She didn't hear wrong.

Unless there was another granny in the world named Laura Jenkins, then these people were definitely talking about her Nana.

Her grandmother had been missing for days, her strange behavior on the phone, and Greg's agitation—all pieces of a puzzling and alarming jigsaw. The possibility that these people were talking about her Nana was disconcertingly high.

'But if it is truly Nana, what could have made her cross paths with people like this?'

'And why would they want her to pay dearly?' Arya thought in confusion till she heard a piercing scream.

"Why?! You had a whole night and that is all you could come up with?! A worthless name?!" Mrs. Herresse sounded like she stubbed her toe against a hard rock, her screeching voice clawing at Arya's ears like a relentless banshee.