LUCIAI met the devil the morning after my twentieth birthday. A buzz from my phone jolted me awake, and I scrambled to search for my phone. When I got a hold of it, I picked the call without checking the caller ID.“Lucia, downstairs, five minutes, now!” The call ended.Those four words made me jump out of my bed immediately. I didn’t even need to check the caller id anymore. From the voice, I knew it was my dad. But what I was worried about was the sharpness and tone of his voice on the call.The call might have been short and sudden, but I could figure that there was something wrong.I hurriedly dressed up in the nearest clothes I could find, and headed downstairs. I left my hair unattended, not even caring about how I looked. All I just wanted to do was get downstairs and find out what was going on.On getting there, I was shocked to find unknown men lined up at the doorway of my father’s study room. My heart sank as my steps grew slower.What was happening? Who were these hefty
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