Rewind Twice Novels & Stories

While still laughing so hard she was almost gasping, she waved the camera in her hand. "I got everything on record. Let me help you get a little payback."

The first car’s boot opened to reveal sixteen magnificent cakes, each decorated in a different vibrant color. "Oh my God, Samuel! Sixteen cakes? I can't eat all this, my love!" "You must," he replied, his voice warm with affection. "Each cake celebrates a year you’ve graced this earth. You have to taste every single one." My heart hammered against my ribs. I was caught between laughter and tears. "Ready for the second?" he asked. I could only nod, my breath hitching as I jumped and shouted with a joy I’d never felt. "Close your eyes," he commanded. When I opened them, sixteen colorful teddy bears of every imaginable size were staring back at me. Tears blurred my vision. I stumbled toward the

The car came into view… and lingered. Not stopped. Not parked. Just moving at an unnaturally slow roll. Adrian’s heartbeat thudded once, heavy. “Rewind,” he said. The guard did. “Play it again.” It played. Same slow approach. Same tinted windows. Same eerie, predatory crawl. Adrian’s jaw flexed. “Again.” The guard replayed it. This time, Adrian stepped closer to the screen, fingers brushing the edge of the monitor as his mind processed every detail—model, license plate, angle, speed.

In the ward, only white curtains stirred in the wind. On the desk lay a signed divorce agreement. Jason stood in the empty ward, crumpling the agreement. His assistant ran in, panting, his forehead beaded with sweat. "Mr. Smith, I already had someone suppress the news, but the audio recording is spreading rapidly." Jason took a deep breath, the panicked look in his eyes fading into condescension. "No need to look for her. Cancel all her supplementary bank cards. The Woods have been relying on their deals with Smith Group to keep their business afloat. She's throwing a fit because she wants me to drive Susan away."

I exhaled without realizing I had been holding my breath but the timer was still running. 02:11 My hands were shaking now, that couldn’t be the only problem. Scripts this big never broke from just one mistake. I scrolled again, letting the lines blur into shapes. My brain followed the rhythm. Step. Step. Step. Pause. Step. Pause. Wait. I froze. My eyes narrowed at the lower section of the code, two lines looked identical like someone had copied one and pasted it twice. That would break the flow, my fingers moved quickly now. I clicked the second line and deleted it, the cursor blinked again, the program ran, the screen flashed and new lines of data began to scroll across the side monitor.

He gestured again that one more time he would swipe my card. "You're kidding me, young man. It's not working," he said and violently handed the black card back to me. I looked at him for a moment and looked back at the black card in my palm. "It's not really working?" I said and wrapped my hand around the card. "Alright... This is the last one. Please try again if it works," I said and handed him my debit card. "I know there's something in it because I hadn't touched any of my allowances inside that card," I said while watching how he swiped.

I said curiously. "Well, I don’t know but I am pretty sure that those two devils are up to no good". Liam replied. "So, what’s the second step, since our first one was a quick success, I suppose that we are going to proceed towards our second step". I asked. "Yes, we are going to. Listen closely, if we make a mistake on this step, trust me our plan will be a failure." I nodded and listened closely. "So, the second step is…."

Maybe she needed to watch it again just to be sure she hadn’t missed anything. She played it through again. With the same result. Maybe it was something so minute that she’d missed it. There had to be something dammit! She decided to rewind the video frame by frame slowly. Leo drew in a deep breath from the driver’s seat. “Don’t torture yourself Love,” he said gently.

I muttered and started fiddling with the radio until I reached a station I liked. I could see give me the side eye, sigh and shook his head. This was going to be a long fucking ride.

Only silence. Fade to black.