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THE NUMBER THAT WON’T DIE

Author: Grace Pearl
last update Huling Na-update: 2025-08-10 22:08:09

NATHANIEL POV

I’m staring at my laptop like it’s breathing. The Ashen projection sits there in my inbox, timestamped 2:12 a.m., no sender name, no signature.

But it’s not blank.

There’s a code buried inside the file name, subtle, almost lazy in how it sits there like it belongs. Eight digits. I type them into my head without even trying. 09122014.

Mallorca. The villa. The day we moved in.

No one else could’ve known that. No one.

I lean back in my chair and rub my eyes, but it’s still there when I open them. That number has been showing up in other places too. Tiny, buried in contract references, in account IDs, in shipment labels that should mean nothing. I told myself it was coincidence. Now it feels like a knife turning.

I’m not imagining it.

The number is there. Staring at me in black and white like it’s been waiting for me to notice.

No one, absolutely no one would know that except her. Not my mother, not Sasha, not some analyst in a glass tower halfway across the world.

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