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Chapter 187

Author: Leema Kamal
last update publish date: 2026-05-04 23:58:32

VICTORIA

I stared at those two words for forty seconds before I touched the phone again.

“Don't come.”

The contact had been in my phone for years. I had saved it myself, a long time ago, after she was gone. I couldn't even say exactly when. Some people held on to old numbers or other old things, not because they planned to use them, but because deleting them felt wrong.

So I had saved it under her name. Sarah Hale. A contact that had never once been used for anything. Never sent a text. Never
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