#31

For weeks, Arvay had watched his mother desperately reach out to every contact, every distant acquaintance, every lingering ghost from her past, anyone who might know where her husband and his family had vanished.

But every phone call ended in the exact same answer; Their business had been suffering heavy losses for months before a final blow forced it to collapse entirely. Their house was auctioned off by the banks, and nobody knows where the family went.