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Part 9 Liam ripped open the desk drawer again. Empty. He checked the top drawer. Then the filing cabinet. Then the kitchen counter. His breathing became shallow. “No…” He dropped …

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Part 15 Chloe barely slept. The visitor log sat on her bedside table. She must have picked it up a dozen times during the night. Every time she looked at …

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Part 20 Chloe’s heartbeat slowed. Not because she was nervous. Because she already knew. “Liam.” The receptionist nodded. “I assume that’s his name.” Rebecca looked at Chloe. “You don’t have …

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Part 26 Three weeks later… The flight to Washington, D.C., landed just after noon. Chloe looked out the airplane window as the Capitol came into view. She still couldn’t believe …

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Part 2 Thomas looked down at the spreadsheet for only a few seconds before pushing it back across the granite island. “You’ve got to be kidding me.” “I don’t joke …

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Part 9 Thomas didn’t go into the office the next morning. That alone was unusual. In four years of marriage, I could count on one hand the number of weekdays …

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Part 15 Thomas returned forty minutes later carrying the step stool in one hand and an empty battery package in the other. Mrs. Campbell followed behind him with a plate …

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Part 22 The following Saturday, I woke up to complete silence. Not the uncomfortable kind. The peaceful kind. No cabinet doors opening. No one calling my name from downstairs. No …

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Part 28 Thanksgiving morning arrived before sunrise. For the first time in nearly twenty years… I woke up because I was rested. Not because I had a turkey to baste. …

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Part 35 Three days later, something happened that none of us expected. It started with a phone call. Thomas answered while I was folding laundry upstairs. A few moments later, …

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