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Chapter 60

Author: A. Leilani
last update publish date: 2026-01-29 23:26:59

Chapter 60

MIA

I'd been calling Dr. Hartwick for three days straight, and every call went straight to voicemail. His office line rang endlessly with no answer. Even his emergency contact number—the one he'd given me specifically for situations involving the ritual—produced nothing but silence.

Panic had been building in my chest like a slow-growing tumor, fed by those threatening texts and the growing certainty that something had gone terribly, catastrophically wrong.

*Return what you stole.*

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