I connected with Stacey Soans in July 2023 through Bumble BFF. In her second message, she offered her phone number without hesitation, explaining that she rarely used the app and preferred to communicate directly. Something about the gesture felt unsettling, giving away personal information so freely to a stranger, but I overlooked it. I told myself that face-to-face interactions were better than endless, meaningless exchanges online.
We set a time to meet the following day. That meeting marked the beginning of something I never could have anticipated, the start of a nightmare that would unravel everything I thought I knew about trust, about intuition, and about the true nature of the person standing in front of me.
