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The Empty Chair

Author: Rea melusi
last update Petsa ng paglalathala: 2026-02-15 21:39:30

Dawn crept in like a thief.

A pale line of light slipped through the cracked shutters of the safe house, touching the dust in the air and the bloodstains on the floor. The room felt wrong—too still, too empty. The kind of silence that did not belong to sleep but to something already broken.

Since Lidia had been brought there, the place had never been quiet.

There had always been something—her breathing, the rattle of chains, the muffled sound of movement when she shifted on the chair where they
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