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ECHOES

Author: Grace Pearl
last update Huling Na-update: 2025-06-16 05:49:27

POV: SASHA

I can't fucking sleep. Can't eat. Can't work. I have a min on my neck and all I can think about is Kaia.

I am staring at my laptop like it might give me a different answer if I blink hard enough. But it won’t. Because the numbers don’t lie.

Hence my deep dive into investigating her

I scroll again, slower this time. There.is a signature code tied to a fund offshore, Cayman-based, very dead looking on paper. Supposed to be gone after Alina died. Supposed to be closed. But something is wrong.

Someone moved money through it.

Last week.

I am not breathing.

I don’t say it out loud. I don’t even write it down. But it is there, pounding behind my ribs like a drum.

Kaia.

She is too careful. Too still. Too fucking familiar.

And it all started with that stupid detail. A number buried in a contract I wasn’t even supposed to see. Alina's number tagged as one of the contacts —signed on something she had no business with. Because she is supposed to be dead. Her signature was too clean. He
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