Outside, the wind dropped just before twilight. The Norman mansion felt strangely quiet.Almost too quiet.Jace stayed by himself inside his room, eyes fixed on the screen of his phone.A flicker of words stayed put, glowing faint. Still there, long after everything else faded. Not gone. Just waiting, silent in the dark.HELLO JACE.Three simple words.Exist they never should have - those three words. A strange echo now, hanging without reason. Not meant to be spoken, yet here they are.For more than seven days, Zena Hayes was gone without a trace.No calls.No messages.No online activity.Nothing.Out of nowhere, her phone started ringing again.Again, Jace looked at the words on the screen. He went over them once more, slowly.And again.Something about it felt wrong.Fingers flew across the keys as he replied without pause.Over here all along, just waiting.A beat passed - then came the answer. It showed up fast, like it had been waiting just behind the curtain.Switzerland.Jace
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