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Chapter 96: Soon

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Christian

“I got it,” Genevieve tells me the second she gets upstairs into my condo, her chest slightly heaving from the quick climb.

She hands me the large, unmarked paper bag containing the Grim Reaper costume.

“You paid cash for it?” I ask, keeping my voice low and disciplined. “Made absolutely sure you avoided any street-facing cameras near the shop?”

“Yes,” she says, her expression completely flat and professional. “No paper trail. No digital footprint whatsoever.”

I pull the hea
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