For days, Kat has noticed Alfie acting strangely. He’s jumpy, distracted, and making excuses to avoid her. At first, she chalked it up to stress or another one of Alfie’s many half-baked schemes. But when he begins dodging important family events and seems constantly on edge, she can’t help but wonder—what exactly is he hiding?

Meanwhile, Stacey Slater and Jean are also behaving oddly. They’re whispering behind closed doors, changing the subject every time Kat enters the room, and giving each other knowing looks that she isn’t meant to see. At first, Kat thinks maybe they’re just dealing with family drama. But when she catches Jean hastily shoving something into her handbag—something that looks suspiciously like a letter or document—her instincts scream that it’s about her.

The drama escalates when Alfie disappears for several hours and comes back looking like he’s been through a war zone. Disheveled, nervous, and brushing off Kat’s questions, he refuses to explain where he’s been. His answer? “You wouldn’t understand.” That only makes things worse. Alfie is terrible at lying—and Kat knows it.

As Kat tries to piece the puzzle together, she begins noticing more clues: a phone call Alfie quickly ends when she walks in. A whispered conversation between Stacey and Jean that stops mid-sentence when they see her. An old photo Kat finds in Alfie’s jacket pocket that seems to be from years ago—but why now? What is he reminiscing about? Or more worryingly… what is he planning?

But the final straw comes when Kat overhears a tense exchange between Stacey and Jean in the kitchen late at night. She only catches fragments—but it’s enough to set alarm bells ringing. Words like “protect her,” “she can’t know,” and “Alfie promised” echo through Kat’s mind as she begins to suspect that something much darker is being kept from her.

The paranoia grows. Is Alfie involved in something dangerous again? Is Stacey trying to shield Kat from something painful? Or—perhaps the most chilling theory—is someone scheming against her from within her own family?

To make matters worse, Kat’s history with Alfie doesn’t exactly fill her with confidence. They’ve been through betrayals, heartbreak, and lies before. And while Kat wants to believe he’s changed, the secrets mounting around her say otherwise.

In a moment of desperation, Kat confronts Alfie—but his reaction only fuels her suspicions. He’s defensive, evasive, and visibly shaken when she brings up Jean and Stacey. And when she presses him, he simply tells her, “Please, Kat, just trust me.” But it’s that exact plea that makes her blood run cold. Trust, after all, is something Kat’s had to learn the hard way.

What Kat doesn’t know is that the truth involves something far more personal than she expected. Stacey and Jean are hiding a secret tied to Kat’s past, one they’ve only just uncovered. And Alfie, though clumsy in his cover-up, is actually trying to protect her—from a truth that could shake the foundations of everything she believes.

Is someone from Kat’s past resurfacing? Could there be a betrayal that goes back years, one that even Alfie didn’t see coming? Or is there something far more sinister at play—someone manipulating those closest to her to turn her world upside down?