The Signal We Never Shared

During dinner, Nathan suddenly put down his fork and looked at me.

"Who's Marcus Knight?"

My heart skipped a beat.

Marcus Knight.

That name was something my best friend Lily and I had made up one drunken night.

We'd agreed that if either of us ever got into trouble and couldn't be reached, we'd use Marcus Knight as our distress signal.

Besides the two of us, no one else in the world knew this name existed.

And Lily had been missing for exactly one month.

She'd said she was going to Thailand for vacation.

And then she never came back.