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The Ghost in the Flesh

Author: Grace Pearl
last update Last Updated: 2025-08-29 19:53:16

The pounding drags me out of sleep like someone’s hammering inside my skull. My eyes snap open, the room still thick with shadows. For a moment I think I’ve dreamed it, but then it comes again,.three sharp blows that rattle the frame of my bedroom door.

I look over to the clock in my desk and see it is past 3.

In the fucking night.

I lie there, waiting for one of the maids to answer. No footsteps. No hushed voices. Nothing.

Of course. They’re gone. Every last one of them.

My jaw locks as I push myself up, the silk sheets twisting around my legs. The house is too quiet, hollow in a way it never used to be. All the staff ran after the papers hit, after my name was dragged through every gutter in the city. They didn’t just leave, they looted. My grandmother’s comb. The diamond brooch. Even the loose cash I kept tucked in the desk drawer. Filthy ingrates. Years of feeding them, clothing them, protecting them and the first whiff of smoke, they bolt.

My throat burns. Rage hits before the fe
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