My Sister Passed Away at My Wedding – A Week Later, Her Coworker Called and Said, ‘She Left a Phone for You. Come Immediately!’ 1

The rescue crew was still searching when we got there.

And through all of it, one thought kept pressing at the back of my mind.

Claire had tried to tell me something.

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A week later, Ryan left for work. Twenty minutes after he drove away, my phone rang.

“Megan?” I said, surprised.

Megan was Claire’s closest friend at the office, the woman I’d met twice and liked immediately because she talked to Claire without flinching.

Her voice was strained. “Alice, I need you to come to the office right now.”

“Why?”

Claire had tried to tell me something.

“She left a phone for you. And a note. They were on my desk. I just got back this morning from visiting my sick grandpa and found them. Come immediately!”

I didn’t call Ryan. I grabbed my keys and drove 45 miles to the city with my heart pounding so hard it made my fingers shake on the wheel.