The Turning PointLila’s POVThe night had gone silent, too silent.I sat on the edge of my bed, staring at the glowing screen of my phone, waiting for Damian’s name to came up. Eliot’s lawyer should have gotten the evidence by now. I had been pacing the room, then sat and paced again. But now I was frozen. My heart thudded like a slow drum, counting the seconds that wouldn't go by.When my phone rang, I picked it up right away.“Damian?” My voice cracked.He didn’t even say hello. He just breathed into the phone, you know one of those exhausted, wounded exhales that told me everything before he spoke.“It’s gone,” he said, after a long pause.“What is gone?”“The flash drive. It never made it.”For a split of second, I didn’t understand what he just said. My brain refused to process it.“What do you mean by it didn’t make it?” I asked, my voice rising slightly.Leo’s voice echoed faintly in the background. It came fast, angry, and panicked while damian’s voice was quieter.“it was s
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