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Chapter 24

Author: Blackthorne
last update publish date: 2026-04-30 21:42:15

I didn't sleep.

The phone sat on the nightstand, dark and silent, but the words echoed in my skull.

Twenty-four hours.

The Broker had given me until tomorrow night to destroy everything I'd built. To call off Mira. To burn the journal. To go back to being invisible.

I couldn't do it.

But I also couldn't let Leo die.

I pulled on a robe and walked to my grandfather's room. The door was open. He was sitting in his armchair, fully dressed, like he'd been waiting for me.

"You heard something."

"The
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