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46. Maya Escalates

last update publish date: 2026-01-23 17:51:06

Maya’s POV

My phone starts ringing while I’m standing in the kitchen staring at a sink full of clean dishes I haven’t bothered to put away yet. I let it ring twice on purpose. Power is a funny thing even when you are paying someone, it feels better to remind them who controls the situation.

When I answer, I don’t say hello. “Well,” I say. “Did you do what I asked.”

“Yes,” the man replies. His voice is calm, professional, the kind of calm that always makes me more nervous than if he sounded scar
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