Faded Letters 소설 & 이야기

There's something about that detail that hits harder than it should. I pull the letter out, unfold it, and for a second I just... hold it, my fingers brushing over the ink, noticing where it's pressed deeper in some places, lighter in others. He crossed out a lot of words. Typos, probably. That feels more personal than I'm ready for. "Okay," I whisper anyway, more to steady myself than anything else. Then I start reading. "An, Ana, Annie, Stass, Stassie, Sia,

Paid away. I cursed under my breath, gripping the phone so hard my knuckles cracked. My wrist throbbed, the bruise darkening, but I didn’t loosen my hold. Rafael wasn’t just a ghost then. He was real. He was part of this rot. And maybe—maybe part of her. I swiped again. Another letter. Yellowed edges, faded ink. My eyes narrowed. The words were broken, hard to read, but two letters kept repeating. G.M.

He noticed there's a total of two letters, which is odd since he expects to have two letters, one for him and one for Katherine. "Weird there's a two letters. Let me read it out loud." Jonathan suggested, and Katherine nodded. Jonathan takes the first letter. Dear fellow players, I would like to apologize if I did something terrible or horrifying act to you and everyone else. I would like to apologize if I'm not a good person to you and to everyone else. I'm so sorry. Also, thank you if we made a memory despite the elimination method being death. I'm glad to be with you all guys.

Isak and Aidan were trickier, as we had Harris, Pam, and Malcolm as middlemen. Writing the letters was… interesting. It took away the physical aspect of our interactions. I got to know each of them better in the written word. I won’t lie and say the letters were innocent or even PG13. Adian’s letters were extremely steamy to the point at times. It felt like we were collaborating on sex scenes for a smutty book I’d read in a book club. Isak’s letters were sweet and endearing, especially compared to Aidan’s, and then there was Albert’s, whose letters were a mixture. I probably shouldn’t have brought their letters with me on break, but I couldn’t leave them behind and wanted to read them again—

* --- I let out a cold laugh and pulled the crumpled, real letter from my inner jacket pocket, spreading it flat on the cold operating console, side-by-side with the fake one on the screen. My body heat had been ironing the real letter for three solid days. The paper fibers were soft and pliant, its corners even crusted with a few specks of blackened, dried blood. The fake letter, however, was pristine. Its fold lines were clean and sharp, without any of the extra wear that comes from repeated crumpling.

"I thought you said you were married, Elena. Why are you here, harassing Clara again? Or should I say, you finally realized how shameful it was to be a mistress and regretted it?" Where did that come from? "Mistress? What on earth are you talking about?" Liam let out a cold snort, his voice dripping with disdain. "That Maybach you left in? It's a custom model with only ten units in the world. You really think some powerful tycoon would be interested in an amnesiac nobody like you? "I looked into it. Every major player in Zentara was already married before you even went missing. So, unless you're some rich man's mistress, what other role could you possibly play?"

Every single picture pulled me back into the past. We had only separated recently, yet those memories already felt like something from a very distant time. Cyrus had also written me a letter. It used to be his favorite thing to do before we got married. He once said letters held more meaning than photographs. But later, he stopped writing to me. Even conversations became impatient. I didn't read the letter in detail. I merely scanned the last paragraph. [I never thought we would end this way. I'm sorry.] In truth, I never thought so either.

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Sam's handwriting filled sheet after sheet, some portions written in her neat, careful script, others in a more hurried scrawl that I recognized from her bad days when breathing was difficult and concentration limited. { My dearest Shade, If you're reading this, I'm gone. (Sorry for the cliché opening, but there's really no good way to start a letter like this)

Elizabeth Summers, Lily's birth mother, had hoped that Lucas would return to her if Lily became an esteemed pianist. But now, after her crimes as a fake pianist had been exposed, Lily knew the Manse family would come after her. At the thought, Lily shivered in terror, recalling Lucas' hateful gaze from the past. Her hands trembled as she fished out her phone and tried calling all her friends, but none of them answered. Unwilling to give up hope, she sent them messages on WhatsApp. However, none of them went through—every one of her friends had blocked her.