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145. GUT FEELING

Author: Faith Adore
last update Last Updated: 2025-07-31 20:11:50

LUCAS

I had just finished brushing my teeth for the second time that night. I couldn’t sleep, couldn’t sit still, couldn’t even lie down to get a good nap. The house was quiet, but my head was a storm. I tried to check Clara’s location again, but the last pin she dropped had vanished. No updates. No typing back. No voice notes. No blue ticks. No sign of life.

I did not follow her day to day activities so I knew I shouldn’t be this worried, but I was still. My gut kept telling me that something was wrong, and not just that she was avoiding me.

I had called her number twenty-one times in a row before I gave up and dialed Zayn’s line. He picked up, but there was noise behind him—hospital chaos or something else.

“What?” he snapped.

“Have you seen Clara?”

“Why?”

“She’s not answering. Her location’s frozen. I just want to know if she’s with you.”

“No, Lucas,” he muttered. “She said she was traveling. Some new job briefing out of town. You didn’t know?”

I paused, completely still.

“What job
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