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Chapter 20 — The Weight of Survival (Dorian)
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2026-04-25 23:11:02
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Spellbound by Obsession Chapter 59 — The Race Against Death (Dorian)
I had my back turned when the silence changed.It wasn’t something I could explain rationally — it was an instinct, the kind that develops when you love someone long enough to know every nuance of their presence.The absence of Lara in the room was like a musical note that suddenly stopped playing. I turned slowly, my eyes scanning the room, and felt the blood run cold when I saw the empty space where she should have been.“Lara?” I called, my voice still controlled.No answer.Detective Morrow kept talking about Sarah’s car, about the cameras, about possible escape routes. His voice was a distant buzz, irrelevant. My eyes were already on the back door, ajar, a crack of light that shouldn’t have been there.That was when I heard the engine.The roar of Lara’s car echoed through the garage, a sound I knew as well as my own breathing. I ran. I crossed the kitchen, knocked over a chair on the way, my legs moving before my brain could fully process what was happening.The garage door was
Spellbound by Obsession Chapter 58 — The Circle of Blood (Lara)
The abandoned warehouse on Old Ferry Road was exactly as I had imagined — a carcass of concrete and rust, devoured by time and oblivion. The windows were broken, graffiti covered the walls, and the silence around it was so absolute that my own breathing made my skin crawl.I parked the car at a safe distance and walked the rest of the way, the cell phone in my pocket, my heart beating so hard I could feel the pulse in my temples.The main door was ajar, a crack of darkness that seemed to swallow me. I entered.The interior was a labyrinth of shadows. Stacked boxes, rusted machines, the smell of mold and abandonment impregnating the air. But there was something more — a sweet, familiar perfume that floated in the darkness like a ghost. Jasmine. Always jasmine.I followed the scent.At the back of the warehouse, a light danced on the walls. Candles. Black. Dozens of them, arranged in a circle on the concrete floor, their flames casting distorted shadows. Strange symbols were drawn on th
Spellbound by Obsession Chapter 57 — The Worst Nightmare of a Mother (Lara)
The first night was the worst of my life.I didn’t sleep. I couldn’t. Every time I closed my eyes, I saw Aggy’s face — her green eyes filled with tears, her mouth opening in a scream I couldn’t hear. I saw her small hands stretched out to me, and me running, running, but never reaching her. I woke up startled, heart racing, hands sweaty, and then reality crashed over me like a blade: she wasn’t there. She wasn’t anywhere.The police from Newburyport arrived twenty minutes after we called that same day. Four patrol cars, a kidnapping investigator, a team that seemed to invade our living room with clipboards and questions and technical terms I could barely process.They searched the park and the surroundings. They turned over every bush, every corner of the park, every inch of the nearby streets. Nothing. No sign of her. No abandoned belongings, no eyewitness besides the girl who saw Aggy leave with “the lady with the sunglasses”.“She left walking with the woman?” The investigator aske
Spellbound by Obsession Chapter 56 — The Second That Changed Everything (Dorian)
The first two weeks were calm.Well… Not entirely. Lara still woke up in the middle of the night, eyes wide, body tense, as if expecting someone to break into the room at any moment. But little by little, she began to relax. The hired security guards made periodic rounds, and after installing cameras all around the perimeter of the house, I checked them myself before going to sleep, scanning every angle on the cell phone screen.Nothing suspicious. No strange movement. Sarah, from all indications, had given up.“Maybe I’m becoming paranoid.” Lara said one night, while we drank tea in the living room, feet tucked under her body.“Maybe.” I didn’t want to feed her fear, but I also didn’t want to minimize what she felt. “But paranoia sometimes saves lives.”“Are you trying to reassure me or scare me more?”“Both.” I admitted, a crooked smile on my lips.She laughed, and the sound was like a balm. I missed her laugh. In the last few days, Lara had been so serious, so closed off, that I al
Spellbound by Obsession Chapter 55 — The Howl That Announced the Storm (Lara)
The restaurant was full, as always on Fridays, but my head wasn’t there.I served the customers on autopilot — smiling, taking orders, serving dishes, collecting tips — but my heart was at home, with her. The tightness in my chest started early, right after breakfast, when I said goodbye to Aggy and saw her green eyes shining as she jumped into Charlotte’s car. There was something in that image — my little daughter, confident, waving to me through the window — that made my stomach tighten.“Mom, today we’re going to have paint!” She shouted, the unicorn backpack bouncing on her back as she settled into the seat.“How cool, love. Behave, okay?”“I will!”The car drove away, and the tightness remained. It settled in my chest like a stone, cold and solid, and didn’t leave me for the rest of the day.I asked to leave early. The manager, a middle-aged woman who had always been understanding with me, didn’t argue — I had plenty of hours saved up, and I rarely asked for favors. She just look
Spellbound by Obsession Chapter 54 — The Point of No Return (Sarah)
Half an hour before pickup time, I parked the rented car on a side street, at a safe distance from the school. Not too close — enough to observe without being noticed, to see the blue iron gate and the movement around it.The movement began gradually. Some parents arrived on foot, pushing strollers or holding the hands of younger children. Others parked and waited leaning against their cars, talking among themselves. A yellow van parked at the designated spot, and a uniformed woman got out to receive the children.And then I saw the white Fiat.It stopped right in front of the gate, occupying the space reserved for transporters. A young woman — Charlotte, I recognized from the dossier photo — got out of the car, quickly checked her phone, and waited leaning against the driver’s door. She was exactly as Rowan had described: twenty-one years old, blonde hair in a ponytail, simple uniform.My heart raced.In a few minutes, Dorian’s daughter would come out. The girl who had his eyes, his
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