Darien looked stunned when he heard that.

He glanced at Keira, confused, and asked, "Nine fifty-five? I don't really get what you mean…"

Keira immediately pressed, "I'm asking why you called her to come out at exactly 9:55!"

Darien seemed even more confused. "Did I? I didn't even notice."

He pulled out his phone, checked his call log, and sure enough—it showed he had made the call at 9:55.

Looking baffled, he muttered, "I just called randomly. I had no idea what time it was."

His expression was sincere, not like someone trying to lie.

Still, Keira glanced over at Erin, just to be sure.

"What are you looking at me for?" Erin asked, raising an eyebrow.

Keira replied, "Check if he's been hypnotized."

"Oh," Erin said, stepping closer to check Darien's pupils. After a quick look, she shook her head. "Nope, nothing."

"Then

felt like the trail had

entered the room and handed Keira his phone. It turned out that during this time, he had someone investigate Darien's

was incredibly detailed—it even listed the kindergarten

an ordinary person, a kid from a small rural town who worked hard in school and

world he'd never seen before and was dazzled by the wealth around him. He started dating rich girls at

he set his sights

whole "risking his life to save her" story?

no heroic

was a carefully staged act by him and his

conversations between Darien and his buddies, detailing how he

how forgiving she was, he began living it up, meeting

Darien feel superior—something he didn't experience with Ellie. He created the illusion that Mollie was his fiancée, deceiving

day, living

never noticed—until the car

in his past that

was really going

Erin and asked, "How did the South family make him

the possibility that Ellie'd been hypnotized to follow Darien's lead? Maybe this is someone targeting the Cobb family—someone out to destroy them—and it

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