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Collision Of Past And Present

Author: Domi_writes
last update Last Updated: 2025-12-09 04:56:50

Jake’s POV

The message came in when I was halfway through reviewing the last staff statement. One vibration from my phone, an unknown number, actually a private number, and one bold sentence:

“Come alone. You know where.”

No threats. No name. Just certainty, certainty that I would understand.

And horribly, I did know where, and I did know who.

My blood turned to ice.

Adrian.

He was My past. My costly mistake. My ghost.

I left the room without telling Antonio or not the staffs. Without telling Chloe. Without telling myself to stop. Some instincts run deeper than logic, and Adrian always had a way of pulling me back into the darkness I spent years trying to crawl out of.

By the time I reached the abandoned parking lot the message implied, my heartbeat was hammering against my ribs. Not fear, rage. Because if Adrian was behind everything happening to Zoe, Lucia, and Chloe…

Then I was the stupid one for staying quiet all these years, without thinking of acting and calming things down whil
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