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Chapter 59: The Grocery Store
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2026-07-29 21:20:00
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The automatic doors of the grocery store slid open with a soft chime as Aria stepped into the cool afternoon air, a light drizzle beginning to fall across the parking lot. She shifted the shopping bag in one hand and breathed deeply, smiling at the scent of fresh rain. For the first time in weeks, she felt almost normal.Families pushed shopping carts toward their cars while a young father lifted his laughing daughter into an SUV and an elderly couple argued playfully over whose turn it was to drive. Nothing looked unusual. Her security detail remained exactly where Damien had instructed—one agent beside the armored vehicle, another near the entrance pretending to check his phone, and a third walking several paces behind her.Vasquez's voice crackled through the lead guard's earpiece. "Status?" "Package is secure," the guard replied. "Preparing to depart." Aria smiled faintly at being called a package, but the moment of levity vanished when the parking lot suddenly grew quiet. The lau
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