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Chapter 64: The New Name

Author: Winter
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Celeste

The text glowed in the dark like a coal.

I sat up in bed, the phone clutched in my good hand, shoulder throbbing under the sling. Killian stirred beside me, one arm flung across the pillow where Eleanor had fallen asleep earlier, her dandelion crown still crooked on her curls. The house was quiet except for the low hum of the baby monitor and the distant patter of rain against the studio skylight.

I stared at the single letter: **V**.

Vaughn.

It had to be. Evelyn was in a federal holding cell, ankle monitor blinking like a dying star. The police had assured us—*she’s contained, she’s done.* But Vaughn had vanished the night of the auction, slipped through the cracks like smoke. The board’s collapse had left him with nothing but a vendetta and a fortune in offshore accounts.

I deleted the text.

Powered the phone off.

But the words burned behind my eyelids.

*You think it’s over. It’s not.*

---

Morning came gray and heavy.

Killian found me in the kitchen before dawn, st
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