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Chapter 5

Author: Mimi Winterrest
The room fell silent.

The anger on Mom’s frozen face was replaced by a look of disbelief so profound that it was almost absurd.

The grape slipped from Dad’s fingers and rolled across the floor.

“Huh...”

Mom let out a sharp, humorless laugh, as though she had just heard the most ridiculous joke imaginable.

“Dead?” she said into the phone. Her tone was openly mocking and dismissive.

“He coughed up blood and died at his desk? Really?

“Wow. Bruno really has outdone himself this time. He wou
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