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Chapter 103: You're Late

Author: Mila Cruz
last update publish date: 2026-07-23 13:11:18

Calista's POV

I'd been pacing since midnight.

I couldn't sit still if my life depended on it. My heels kept clicking across the hardwood floor in the living room, back and forth, wearing down that expensive rug I bought last year when I still thought money could fix everything.

The phone burned a hole in my hand. I checked it for the hundredth time. Nothing from Jason, not a single text or call since that last short conversation where he'd said he was "handling the evidence room" in that flat
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