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Arrest

Author: Sunday
last update publish date: 2026-06-29 00:26:33

POV: Evelyn

The news reached us while I was folding laundry.

Not exactly the dramatic setting I'd imagined for the end of Samantha Hayes.

One minute I was standing in the living room trying to match Toby's socks—which somehow never seemed to have actual partners—and the next my phone buzzed across the coffee table.

Rebecca.

I answered without thinking.

"Please tell me you have good news for once."

There was a pause.

Then she laughed.

Not the bitter laugh I'd gotten used to over the past year.

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  • Three years, Three Billion dollars- His worst mistake    Peace

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