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Chapter Ninety-Eight: A Man with an ordinary Life

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The phone buzzed against the leather console, a sharp vibration that cut through the silence. Ezra’s name lit up the screen.

Killian answered on the first ring.

“Talk.”

“I dug him up,” Ezra said without preamble. His tone was brisk, efficient , but there was a quiet thread under it, like something about this didn’t sit right even with him. “Daniel Mercer. On paper, nothing special. He owns a small hardware store in Ridgefield. Divorced a few years back, no kids. No priors, no arrests, no debts. Pays taxes on time, utilities steady. Looks like a man who goes home after closing shop and eats frozen dinners in front of the TV.”

Killian’s knuckles tightened on the steering wheel. Ordinary. Too ordinary.

“Address.”

Ezra rattled it off. Then, after a pause: “killian… he doesn’t look like someone who belongs in this world. I’ve seen ghosts with heavier footprints.”

Killian cut the line without answering. He didn’t need Ezra’s doubts circling his head.

The car purred beneath his grip as he shi
Jhumie_writes

Daniel Mercer is no ghost, no shadow, he’s alive, running something as unassuming as a small store. That’s the beauty of it: the ordinariness, the facade of a regular life. And yet, every instinct in Killian tells him nothing about this is simple.

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