Jacob’s breath caught in his throat as he unfolded the paper completely and realised it was a bus ticket. He stared at it, trying to process the significance of what he was seeing. The ticket was for a one-way trip from WhistleTown to a destination he had never heard of before—Thornfield.
The departure time was listed as 9:00 PM, which scared him as particularly significant because it was just an hour after he had dropped Lena off at the bus station. The ticket seemed to pulse with an eerie significance in the dim light of the car’s interior.