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CHAPTER 150

Author: CagalieYula
last update Huling Na-update: 2025-05-27 20:44:16

It wasn’t the rain that unsettled me—it was the silence that followed it.

Chicago’s sky wept cold and gray as I stood in front of a weathered brownstone in Old Town. Carla’s directions had led me here. Number 1468, two cracked steps and a squeaky gate. The kind of house that held stories in its bones.

My story, maybe.

I clutched the thin file folder Carla had given me—birth records, a blurred ID photo, a partial family tree traced through public archives. It was all circumstantial. Fragile. But it was enough.

Celeste Montague was a ghost with a heartbeat. One who might’ve never meant to be found.

I rang the doorbell.

Nothing.

I pressed it again.

Still silence.

Just as I began to turn away, a shuffling sound came from behind the door. Then a latch, slow and deliberate. I held my breath.

The woman who opened it looked nothing like I imagined—but somehow, exactly how I needed her to.

She was in her late fifties, maybe older. Gray hair pulled into a bun, cheeks hollow from time, but her e
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