Alle Kapitel von Veiled Deception: Kapitel 51 – Kapitel 58

By the time I got back to the house, I already knew I wasn’t going to leave the manuscript alone.I told myself I would.Briefly.But that lasted about as long as it took me to walk into my room and see the drawer.“…yeah,” I muttered, dropping my bag. “That’s not happening.”I didn’t even pretend this time.No hesitation.No pacing.No fake internal debate.I went straight to it.Opened the drawer.Picked it up.Sat down.Like it was part of a routine now.Which was probably the most concerning part.I stared at the pages for a second before opening them.“…just read,” I said under my breath.“Stop thinking about it and just read.”Because thinking about it was what made it worse.Reading it—Reading it felt like stepping into something that was already moving.Like I wasn’t controlling it anymore.Like I was just… following.I exhaled.Then turned the page.Katherine’s Manuscript — Chapter 9I have started lying.Not big lies.Not obvious ones.Small things.The kind that slip easil

The thing about Grey—wasn’t that he talked too much.It was that he didn’t talk enough.Most people fill silence.They soften it.Stretch it into something comfortable so it doesn’t feel like it’s pressing in on you.Grey didn’t do that.He let silence sit.Heavy.Uninterrupted.And somehow—that made everything sharper.I noticed it properly that afternoon.Not because something dramatic happened.Because nothing did.And that was the problem.“You shouldn’t ignore her.”I didn’t look up.“I’m not ignoring her.”“You are.”“I answered her.”“You didn’t engage.”“That’s intentional.”“I know.”I sighed, finally turning toward him.“…and that’s a problem?”“Yes.”“Why?”He didn’t answer immediately.Of course he didn’t.He never rushed answers.He just… let them arrive when he decided they should.“Because she doesn’t like it.”“That sounds like a ‘her’ problem.”“It becomes a ‘you’ problem.”I leaned back slightly.“…that sounds threatening.”“It’s not.”“It feels like it is.”“It’s

I didn’t open the manuscript right away.I told myself I would wait.Eat first.Rest.Think.Do anything normal before going back into… that.That being the quiet, unsettling thing Katherine had left behind.But normal didn’t last long.It never did anymore.I sat on the edge of the bed for a while, staring at nothing in particular.Then my eyes drifted.Of course they did.To the drawer.“…this is becoming a problem,” I muttered.Because it was.Not the manuscript itself.Me.The way I kept going back to it.Like it had answers.Like it had something I needed.I exhaled.Then stood.Opened the drawer.Picked it up.And sat back down.No ceremony this time.No hesitation.Just… acceptance.I flipped to the next page.Katherine’s Manuscript — Chapter 10I have started noticing things I didn’t notice before.Not because they weren’t there.Because I didn’t want to see them.There is a difference. Hailey“…that’s not comforting,” I whispered.Because that line—that line felt like it ap

I didn’t open the drawer right away.That was new.That alone should have meant something.Because lately, I hadn’t been hesitating.I’d been going straight to it—like it was part of a routine I never agreed to but somehow kept following anyway.But tonight—I stopped.I dropped my bag near the door and just stood there for a second.Not moving.Not thinking clearly either.Just… there.The room felt the same.Nothing had changed.The bed was still made.The curtains still slightly open.The same quiet, controlled calm that never quite felt like mine.And yet—something felt different.Not in the room.In me.“She knows.”The words came out before I could stop them.Soft.Barely above a whisper.But loud enough to feel real.I walked further into the room slowly.Like I wasn’t sure where I was going.Like I needed to fill the space with movement before I could sit still.“She definitely knows something.”Not everything.It didn’t feel like everything.If Violet knew everything—she wo