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Chapter 168
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2026-06-24 15:40:00
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Zara's POV I had been managing the fear for days. Not eliminating it.... management was all I had available, and I had become competent at it through repetition. When the anxiety arrived, I returned to the facts. The shooter was gone. The police had released me. Caldwell had been clear: suspicion without evidence was a position, not a case. Reeves could carry his certainty around the station all he wanted. Certainty didn't produce a warrant.I returned to those facts every time the anxiety found me. In the shower. In the cab to the office. At my desk, looking at documents I was supposed to be reviewing... The facts held. I held onto them. The first cracks appeared before nine. A contact who worked adjacent to the financial press messaged to ask whether I had seen the files circulating about Selina. I had seen them.... I had seen them at six in the morning when someone in a group thread had shared the first link, and I had read enough to understand that whateve
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Alex's POVThe darkness had changed. I couldn't have explained how I knew this.... there was nothing to measure it against, no reference point that hadn't also been dark..... but I knew it the way you knew things that existed below the level of thought. I was closer to the surface than I had been. I didn't know how much closer. I kept moving toward the light Time had stopped meaning anything early on. At first I had tried to track it.... to use the intervals between Maya's visits as a measure, to count the nurses' rounds, to find some structure in the sounds that reached me. That effort had collapsed quickly. The intervals blurred. The sounds overlapped. The darkness had its own relationship with duration that had nothing to do with how time moved in the world I was trying to get back to. What I had instead of time was memory. And memory had started doing something new. It began as fragments Not ordered, not sequential.... the way memories moved in d
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Selina's POV The ceiling was white. A hotel ceiling. I lay there for a moment. Then it all came back. The phone was on the nightstand. I reached for it before I was fully sitting up, the automatic reflex of someone who had spent months monitoring a device that contained threats and needed to know what had arrived overnight. The screen lit up. I looked at it for three full seconds before my brain caught up to what my eyes were seeing. The number of notifications had exceeded the counter.... the counter that stopped at ninety-nine and replaced itself with a symbol that communicated more than can be displayed. Messages. Missed calls. Alerts from apps I barely used, triggered by the volume of people tagging or mentioning or sharing something that contained my name. I sat up Opened the first message. The first link loaded slowly. I watched the page assemble itself on the screen..... the headline arriving first, then the images, then the text below them.... and
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