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Chapter Four Hundred and Eight

Author: Anney GW
last update publish date: 2025-12-26 10:57:14
Vanessa’s POV

The phone rang for the fourth time in under an hour, and by then my nerves were so frayed I could feel them humming beneath my skin. I stared at the screen as if the name itself might combust if I looked too closely.

Unknown Number. Correctional Facility.

I let it ring out.

Again.

The silence that followed felt thinner than the ringing ever had. I poured myself a glass of water I didn’t drink and walked to the window instead.

Everything out there was still moving while my world had
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