My Ex-Wife’s Secret System

Chapter 72: Evelyn Eleanor’s Secret Lab

The road up to the hills felt pretty empty.

Adrian Cole was sitting behind the wheel of a black SUV, just the engine humming away in the dark night. Out there, everything looked washed out. Clouds had eaten up the moon.

Bare trees stood along the cracked road, almost like they were watching some old forgotten thing. His hands squeezed the wheel too hard.

The leather dug into his palms. He didn't let go.

The coordinates had burned in his mind ever since Jessica had left him the journal. A single line in his mother’s handwriting:

“If everything is lost, Adrian……come here.”

The old GPS ticked closer to the marked destination. His pulse matched it, steady but tense.

For years, he had buried her memory under layers of silence and control. To face it now, to walk willingly into the wreckage of her life’s work was like picking at a wound that had never healed.

He should have turned back. But something stronger than reason kept him moving forward.

The car came to a stop at last. He just