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Chapter 21

Autor: C.ELLICA
last update Última atualização: 2025-07-21 10:21:49

ELIAS MCLAREN – POV

It had been months since I killed her.

Krystal McLaren. My niece. The forgotten child of the McLaren family—too soft, too strange, too dreamy for her own good. I had snuffed her out like a candle, convinced the world would forget her like the smudge she was. She was stupid not to give me that one thousand dollar winning ticket.

But something was wrong.

There was no news. No headlines. No headlines screaming “Heiress Found Dead” or even the subtle whispers of a “Missing Woman.” My daughters didn’t mention her once. My wife, Norma, only tightened her pearls whenever the subject veered too close. Her absence was… too quiet.

That silence—it suffocated me.

It haunted me.

Did no one find her body?

Did someone… help her?

The weight of paranoia was a noose around my throat. I’d begun drinking earlier and earlier each day, desperate to drown the itch in my spine that whispered she might still be out there. Watching. Waiting.

And it didn’t help that my company—McLaren Intern
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