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The man yelled, leading a smile to crawl on the face of the BMW owner. Soon after, the sand above the wooden surface was cleared to reveal a customized coffin with an engraved name on it. "Open it," The BMW man ordered, and as the forced it open, they found nothing inside. There were neither bones, maggots, nor any sign of rotten flesh. A strange smile appeared on his lips as he waved them to cover it up. He started to leave for his car, and as he began to reverse, he turns his car's headlights on, a reflection hitting the name engraved on the tombstone which was formerly above the grave they just dug to reveal, "Donovan Otto Blackwood,"

The response he got was a scoff before Luis turned away again. He gripped the large, rotting padlock hanging from the gate. It had clearly been a long time since anyone had visited the place. The gate itself was draped in cobwebs, with insects visibly crawling across it under the week glow of the streetlight. "We'll need to break it," Luis said. Connor stepped forward and swung the hammer hard against the padlock. With a sharp crack, it broke open, granting them access to the mortuary… of all places. Luis held his torch as he stepped inside. Howls echoed through the air, and a chilling wind whipped around them, but he didn’t flinch... not even a little.

It offered Jack proof that the Locksmith was useful. The tabletop opened into small windows, each showing a prison somewhere on Earth. A church crypt beneath Prague where a choir of shadows kept singing hymns no congregation remembered. A bunker under the Gobi where a soldier made of sand counted every war humans had promised would be the last. A vault in Lagos where three rivers argued over which drowned city deserved to return first. A basement in Boston where a woman with silver eyes sat beside a sleeping wolf child and whispered, "Not yet," every time the moon rose. All of them were locks. All of them were failing.

The man who should have died but never did. And now, his shadow was moving through their walls. The cane tapped again as Allerick turned toward the weapons locker, unlocking the drawer with a fingerprint and a code only two people knew. The storm hadn’t come. It was already inside. Outside, the wind picked up, moaning low against the windows like laughter curled in smoke. And somewhere in the dark— The ghost smiled. Elsewhere. Hidden. Watching. The storm had passed over the hills but left behind a stillness too quiet to trust.

"Camila only liked me for my money! When she found out that my company was about to go down, she left with all the money and antiques I had in the safe!" Jason apologized, "Madeline, I'm sorry. I looked into it. She was the one who orchestrated everything that happened to you in the mental asylum! I really didn't know you would suffer that much. I was lied to as well! If I knew about it, I wouldn't have let them do that to you!"

This was the secret worth killing over. She knelt before the trunk and lifted the lid. Inside, nestled among yellowed newspapers and faded photographs, was a leather journal with a name embossed on the cover that made Maya's blood run cold. Not Eleanor Reeves. Thomas Blackwood. The name of the man who'd founded Moonlight Cove. The man whose family still owned half the town. The man whose grandson— "Oh my God," Maya breathed. Behind them, the basement door slammed shut with a sound like a gunshot, and the single light bulb exploded in a shower of glass and sparks.

Two reasons to be brave. The boarding announcement echoed through the terminal. I inhaled shakily. Then I walked toward the gate. Behind me, somewhere across the city, Ethan Blackwood was still searching. Still calling. Still trying to understand why the woman he loved had vanished overnight. But he was already too late. As I stepped onto the plane, I made myself one final promise. Ethan Blackwood would never find me. And he would never know about the twins. Not until fate decided otherwise.

Chapter 22: The Cemetery The cemetery gates were locked. Not surprising. It was two in the morning, and even the dead needed their peace. But the lock was new. Shiny. A heavy padlock that hadn't been there the last time I'd visited my mother's grave. Daniel's doing. He didn't want company. Lucien pulled out a pair of bolt cutters. He'd brought them for something else—the warehouse, maybe, or the factory—but they worked just fine on the lock. It snapped open with a crack that echoed through the empty street.

A tiny betrayal of humor, filed under dangerous, monitor closely. The alley behind them opens to the service road. A dead woman in a nurse’s tunic shuffles near the corner, too far to matter yet. Somewhere inside the depot, something scrapes once, then stops. Eli goes back to the lock. “You alone?” “Usually.” “That an answer?” “It’s a lifestyle choice.” “Mm.” He finishes the lock in six seconds. Maya revises her assessment upward. Silently. Because saying that was impressive in the apocalypse is how people start thinking you have conversations to spare.