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Daily Report, Davao City (2026)

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04/01/2026

Her voice echoed across the room. The gift box sat on the table. My husband looked at me, confused. Then my older sister darted past me. She grabbed the box, her eyes on my mother-in-law. “Thank you,” she said, beaming. Then she turned to me with a wicked smile and said…
Lorraine Whitmore’s voice echoed across the dining room like she was making an announcement at a wedding instead of at her own Christmas dinner. The chandelier above the table threw warm light onto the china she only used twice a year. In the middle of it all sat a small gift box—cream paper, satin ribbon, perfectly centered like it had been measured with a ruler.
I stared at it longer than I meant to. Ethan noticed. “What’s that?” he whispered, brows pulled together. He looked genuinely confused, which told me one thing: whatever was inside, he hadn’t known about it.
Lorraine kept talking, hands folded, posture stiff. For three years she had treated me like a temporary guest in her son’s life—polite words with sharp edges, compliments that landed like critiques. Tonight, though, her tone was different. Almost ceremonial.
“There are moments,” she said, “when a family has to be clear about its future.”
My sister Vanessa sat to my left, swirling her wine as if she owned the room. Vanessa was the kind of person who could laugh at your joke and still make you feel like you’d said something wrong. She’d flown in two days ago and had already found a way to insert herself into every conversation, every plan, every private corner of my life.
Lorraine’s eyes flicked to the gift box and then, briefly, to me. I felt my shoulders tighten. For one irrational second, I thought: Is this… for me?
Before I could even shift in my chair, Vanessa moved.
She sprinted past me so fast her chair scraped the floor. She reached the center of the table, grabbed the gift box with both hands, and turned toward Lorraine with a bright, practiced smile that belonged on a magazine cover.
“Oh my God,” Vanessa said, loud enough for everyone to hear. “Thank you.”
Lorraine blinked, surprised, but didn’t stop her.
Ethan looked from Vanessa to me like he was trying to translate a language he didn’t speak. My stomach dropped. I could feel heat rising up my neck, that familiar combination of embarrassment and anger.
Vanessa tugged the ribbon loose with a quick, confident pull and lifted the lid. Inside was a thick envelope and a small velvet pouch. She peeked at the envelope first, eyes darting across the page like she was scanning for the line that mattered.
Then she turned to me.
Her smile changed—thinner, sharper, almost delighted. And in a voice that was sweet enough to fool a stranger, she said, “Looks like Lorraine finally agrees with me, Claire… you were never the one who belonged here.”...

04/01/2026

I grew up watching my parents pour everything into cleaning up my older brother’s failures while dismissing my wins. I left home determined to prove myself, and fifteen years later, I built a thriving company from the ground up. During a job interview, I saw them walk in with my brother. They smirked and said, “You can’t get this job.” I smiled and replied, “You’re right—because I own this company.”
I grew up in a small Ohio town where everyone had a story about “potential.” In our house, that word belonged to my older brother, Ethan. When Ethan failed a test, my parents—Mark and Diane—called the teacher, paid for tutoring, and insisted he was misunderstood. When I brought home straight A’s or a debate trophy, they smiled, said “nice,” and went back to Ethan’s latest crisis. I learned early that my wins were quiet, but his failures were loud enough to fill the whole house.
By seventeen, I stopped begging to be seen and started planning to leave. I worked weekends at a grocery store, took extra shifts, and applied for scholarships in secret. The day I got accepted to a state university with financial aid, my dad congratulated me like I’d completed an errand. Two weeks later, Ethan got a used car “to help him focus.” I packed one suitcase, borrowed my aunt’s old laptop, and moved into a dorm room that smelled like carpet cleaner and freedom.
College was hard and honest. If I wanted to eat, I had to earn it. If I wanted to succeed, I had to build the habits myself. I majored in business analytics, waited tables at night, and taught myself to code between shifts. After graduation, I joined two startups and watched talented people get overlooked because they didn’t have the right connections or the loudest voice. That kind of bias made my skin crawl. So at twenty-seven, I quit, emptied my savings, and started Quinn Metrics, a platform that helps companies measure performance fairly and develop people based on data, not favoritism.
The first year was cold emails, tiny contracts, and stress headaches. The second year, one mid-sized client took a chance on us, and everything snowballed. Fifteen years after I left home, Quinn Metrics had a real office, a real team, and steady revenue. I didn’t call my parents about it. A part of me still wanted them to notice on their own.
Then, on a rainy Tuesday, I sat in our glass conference room to observe an interview for a senior operations role. The résumé in front of me made my hands go cold: Ethan Parker. My brother. When the door opened, I expected only him. Instead, my parents walked in on either side of Ethan like this was their appointment. They scanned the awards on the wall and the company logo behind me. My mother’s mouth curled into a satisfied smirk. “You can’t get this job,” she said, loud enough for my HR director, Lila Moreno, to hear. I looked at Ethan, then at my parents, and let a smile spread across my face. “You’re right—” I said....To be continued in C0mments 👇

04/01/2026

They smiled and waved from their car. I stood there, watching her drive away. My phone buzzed with her last text. “I just can’t,” it said. My husband came to the porch, shaking his head. He said, “You knew she would say that.” Then the door opened behind him, and my son’s wife stood there…
They smiled and waved from their car as the photographer called after them, “Just one more shot!” Amelia leaned out the passenger window, her veil pinned neatly, her lipstick perfect. She looked like every bridal magazine cover I’d ever shown my son when he was little and swore he’d never get married. Daniel’s tuxedo collar was crooked from hugging everyone, and he flashed that familiar grin that always made me believe everything would be fine. I stayed on the front steps of our rented farmhouse venue, bouquet baskets lined up beside me, watching Amelia’s rental sedan roll down the gravel drive. At first I thought she was going to the hotel for her “something blue” or to meet her maid of honor. The DJ was already testing the speakers, the caterers were plating appetizers, and my husband, Robert, was inside arguing with the coordinator about the seating chart. Then my phone buzzed. A single message from Amelia: “I just can’t.” For a moment, the words didn’t make sense. I reread them like they might rearrange into something else—“I’ll be back,” “I’m running late,” “I can’t find my earrings.” But the punctuation was final, like a door closing. I stepped off the porch and onto the grass, suddenly aware of every sound: laughter from the bridal party upstairs, the clink of glassware, a groomsman humming off-key. My hands started to shake so hard I nearly dropped my phone. Robert came out onto the porch, his jaw tight. He didn’t ask what was wrong. He just saw my face and shook his head, slow and weary, like he’d been carrying something heavy for a long time. “You knew she would say that,” he said. I spun toward him. “What are you talking about? Robert, she’s—she’s leaving.” He avoided my eyes. “Because she found out.” “Found out what?” My voice came out sharper than I meant. “What did she find out?” Before he could answer, the front door behind him creaked open. I expected to see Daniel—maybe panicking, maybe laughing it off. Instead, a woman I’d only met twice stepped onto the porch like she owned the air around us. She wore a simple navy dress, no makeup, and her hair was pulled back like she’d come straight from work. She looked exhausted and determined at the same time. Claire. My son’s wife. She held up her left hand. A plain gold band caught the afternoon light. Then she said, steady as a judge delivering a verdict, “Amelia didn’t leave for no reason. She left because Daniel is already married—to me.”...To be continued in C0mments 👇

04/01/2026

My sister called me “mentally unstable” and banned me from her luxury wedding. My parents sided with her, saying they didn’t want a failure ruining the big day. I stayed quiet, letting their cruelty echo. But on the wedding day, her groom set the venue on fire and canceled everything. When they learned why, they came running to me. But not everyone deserves a second chance.
I found out I was uninvited from my sister Madeline’s wedding the way you find out you’re being fired: through a forwarded email that wasn’t meant for you. One of her bridesmaids—Lila, who still had a conscience—sent me a screenshot of the group chat. Madeline had written, “Do NOT tell Claire the location. She’s mentally unstable and she’ll ruin everything.”
Mentally unstable. Two words that landed like a slap. I’d had one rough year after my divorce—therapy, medication for panic attacks, the whole slow rebuild. I never hid it. I thought honesty was strength. In my family, it was ammunition.
When I called my parents, my mom didn’t even pretend to be surprised. “Honey,” she said softly, as if explaining the weather, “it’s for the best. Your sister needs peace. We can’t have… drama.”
“Drama?” I repeated. “I haven’t done anything.”
My dad took the phone. “Madeline worked hard for this wedding. It’s luxury, it’s expensive. We don’t want a failure ruining the day.”
Failure. That word was familiar too. I heard Madeline laughing in the background, like the decision was entertainment.
I could’ve fought. I could’ve shown up anyway, made a scene, proved their worst assumptions right. Instead I went silent. I muted the family thread, stopped replying to cousins, and spent the week pretending my stomach wasn’t clenched into a knot. The only time I broke that silence was when a florist called me by mistake, asking about an invoice “you approved.” I told her she had the wrong person and hung up, my skin prickling.
On the morning of the wedding, I sat on my apartment balcony with cold coffee and watched the sun brighten over the city. I tried to feel relief. If I wasn’t there, I couldn’t ruin anything, right?
At 4:17 p.m., my phone exploded with notifications. Missed calls. Texts. A voicemail from Lila, breathless and shaking: “Claire, the venue—there’s a fire. Ryan did something. Madeline is screaming. Everyone’s outside. It’s… it’s bad.”
Fire? Ryan—Madeline’s groom—was the calm one, the golden-boy attorney she’d bragged about for months. I stood up so fast my chair scraped the concrete.
Then my mom called. Not the gentle voice from before. This one was sharp with panic. “Claire,” she cried, “where are you? We need you. Please come—right now. We need you more than ever.”
And before I could ask why, my dad got on the line and said, “They found out. They know what you know.”...To be continued in C0mments 👇

04/01/2026

I was making $12,000 per month while my husband was unemployed. The day he finally got a job, he sold my company’s confidential documents to our competitor to ruin my career. Then he emailed my boss, accusing me of leaking the documents. Moments later, he texted me saying, “Your career is over.” I couldn’t help but laugh because the document he sold was actually…
I was making $12,000 per month while my husband was jobless. For nearly a year, I carried the rent on our Brooklyn one-bedroom, the student loans, the groceries, and the quiet weight of Adrian Novak’s pride. Adrian was charming in public—the guy who made neighbors laugh in the elevator—but at home he grew sharper each month he didn’t work. He’d call my job “corporate theater,” then ask about my bonus dates like they were his.
I worked as a product lead at Helixgate Analytics, a mid-sized cybersecurity firm that built fraud-detection tools for banks. The role paid well because it was brutal: constant releases, late-night calls with clients, and a nonstop parade of “urgent” bugs. Adrian knew the basics of what I did, but not the details—he never asked unless it was to complain that I was “always on.”
Then, finally, he got a job. Adrian announced it over dinner like he’d won a medal: a business development role at Northbridge Systems, a direct competitor. I forced a smile, even though my stomach sank. Helixgate had strict policies about conflicts, and I could already hear compliance asking questions.
Two weeks later, I came home and found Adrian at my desk. My laptop was open. He looked up like he belonged there. “Relax,” he said, “I was just printing something.” I told him—calmly, then not so calmly—that my work devices were off limits. He rolled his eyes, said I was paranoid, and walked away.
The next morning, my boss, Marissa Chen, messaged me: “Can you jump on a call now?” Her tone was all business, no softness. On the video call, Marissa’s face was tense, and Legal was there too. They read an email sent from Adrian’s personal account. It claimed I had been leaking Helixgate’s “core model documentation” to Northbridge. Attached was a PDF with our internal formatting and a set of slides that looked uncomfortably real.
Before I could even finish saying, “I didn’t do this,” my phone buzzed. Adrian texted: “Your career is over.”
I stared at the message, then at the attachment on Marissa’s screen, and I actually laughed. Not because it was funny—because I recognized the file name. The “secret document” Adrian had sold wasn’t what he thought it was. It was a honeyfile Helixgate Security had quietly planted weeks ago, watermarked and instrumented to phone home the moment anyone outside our network opened it.
And right then, as Marissa watched, a new alert popped up in the security dashboard: the honeyfile had just been opened—from a Northbridge office IP address....To be continued in C0mments 👇

04/01/2026

I bought my dream car—a Porsche—but the very next day my dad snatched the keys, saying it was his right because he had “paid for my education.” When I confronted him, a few hours later he called my office and coldly said, “I burned your car. Don’t come home.” I rushed over in panic, but then burst out laughing because the car he burned was actually…
I bought my dream car—a graphite-gray Porsche 911 Carrera—and for the first time in years I felt like my life was finally mine. I’m Luca Moretti, thirty-two, an operations manager in Newark, and I’d spent a decade doing everything “responsible”: overtime, night classes, helping my mom after my parents’ messy split, and saving every extra dollar like it was oxygen. The Porsche wasn’t an impulse. It was a finish line.
I didn’t even drive it home the first day. I had it delivered to a private storage garage in Harrison—climate-controlled, keyed entry, the kind of place that doesn’t ask questions if you pay on time. I brought it there because I knew my father, Vittorio, would turn it into a lecture. He always did. In his mind, nothing I owned was truly mine if he’d ever helped me with anything.
The next morning, he proved it. He showed up at my apartment unannounced while I was making coffee. He didn’t knock. He never knocked. He walked straight in like the lease had his name on it, saw the empty key hook, and immediately demanded, “Where are the keys?”
I hesitated—just long enough for him to spot the Porsche fob I’d absentmindedly set on the counter.
He snatched it so fast I heard the plastic click against his ring. “This is my right,” he said, voice calm like he was explaining a policy at the DMV. “I paid for your education.”
“You helped with one year,” I said, keeping my tone even. “And I paid you back.”
He smiled without humor. “You can never pay back what a father gives.”
I stepped between him and the door. “Give them back.”
His eyes narrowed, and that old, familiar pressure filled the room—the kind that used to make me feel twelve again. “I’ll keep them until you remember who you owe,” he said, and walked out.
I went to work shaking, then spent my lunch break calling him. Voicemail. Texts. Nothing. My girlfriend, Sofia, told me to breathe and document everything. I tried. By midafternoon, I was almost convincing myself he was bluffing—until my office phone rang.
It was Vittorio.
His voice was flat, almost bored. “I burned your car,” he said. “Don’t come home.”
For a second, the room tilted. I didn’t even hang up—I just grabbed my jacket, ran to my car, and flew across town, heart hammering so hard it hurt. When I turned onto my street, I saw orange light dancing against the brick buildings.
And there, in the middle of the driveway behind my apartment, a car was on fire—flames climbing higher than the roofline—while my father stood nearby with his hands on his hips, watching like he’d just finished a chore....To be continued in C0mments 👇

04/01/2026

He led me into a quiet hallway. “You remind me so much of her,” he whispered. His eyes were sad, somewhere else. A knot formed in my stomach. He reached for his phone. My hands started to tremble. “She was a good person,” he said. He turned the phone and showed me a photo of…
He led me into a quiet hallway just off the crowded conference room, past a row of bulletin boards and a water fountain that hummed like it hadn’t been serviced in years. I followed because his voice had turned careful, almost breakable, and because the way he looked at me—like I’d triggered a memory he wasn’t ready to hold—made my skin prickle.
“You remind me so much of her,” he whispered.
His eyes were sad, somewhere else. Not the kind of sadness that comes with a bad day, but the kind that lives in your bones. A knot formed in my stomach. Ethan Cole wasn’t a stranger; I’d seen him at the community legal clinic every Thursday, always helping people fill out forms, always steady. But I’d never seen him like this—pale, rigid, as if one wrong word would split him open.
He reached for his phone. My hands started to tremble, and I hated that they did. “She was a good person,” he said, like he was stating a fact that the world had ignored. “She’d give you her last dollar and tell you it was nothing.”
He turned the phone and showed me a photo.
At first, my brain rejected it. The woman staring back had my face—my dark brows, the slight tilt of my nose, the dimple that appeared only when I tried not to smile. The picture looked old, maybe taken on a cheap point-and-shoot. The woman stood in front of a diner sign, hair pulled into a ponytail, eyes squinting against the sun. She looked like me, but not me—like a version of me living a different life.
“That’s… that’s not possible,” I managed.
Ethan’s thumb hovered over the screen, then swiped to another photo. This one was closer. The woman’s wrist was visible, turned slightly toward the camera.
My breath caught.
A small crescent-shaped scar sat just below the base of her thumb.
I had the same scar.
I’d gotten it when I was five, my adoptive mom always said. A broken mug. A careless reach.
“You have it,” Ethan said softly, watching my face instead of the screen. “Don’t you.”
I didn’t answer, because my throat had locked. My heart hammered so loud I thought someone in the conference room might hear it.
Ethan drew a folded paper from his jacket pocket—creased like it had been opened a hundred times. Across the top, in bold letters, were the words: Missing Person Report.
He held it out to me, and my eyes snagged on the name before I could stop them.
LAUREN COLE.
Then I saw the date she disappeared—twelve years ago—followed by a line that made the hallway tilt: Adoption finalized: same week.
And in the margin, written in pen, a note: Birthmark: left shoulder, crescent-shaped.
I lifted my sleeve with shaking fingers. The crescent mark stared back at me like an accusation....To be continued in C0mments 👇

03/01/2026

After my dad’s funeral, when the lawyer began reading his will, my family mocked me because I only inherited his old, junk laptop, while my younger sister received his $20 million estate. She smirked and said, “Dad knew you were useless, so he gave you what you deserve.” But then I laughed back when I showed them his $50 million crypto wallet…
After my dad’s funeral, we gathered in a quiet conference room at Harrison & Cole, the law firm he’d used for years. The air smelled like burnt coffee and fresh paper. My aunt dabbed her eyes dramatically, my cousin scrolled on his phone, and my sister Claire sat across from me with perfect posture—black dress, calm face, the kind of composure that made people assume she was the responsible one.
Mr. Donovan, my father’s attorney, cleared his throat and opened a folder. “Richard Bennett was very specific,” he said, adjusting his glasses. “I’ll read his will as written.”
I expected the usual: sentimental items, a few accounts, maybe the house sold and split. My dad wasn’t flashy, but he’d built a comfortable life after years of running his small logistics business. Still, the moment Donovan started listing numbers, I felt my stomach tighten.
“Claire Bennett will receive the primary residence, the investment portfolio, and the remaining liquid assets,” Donovan read. “Estimated value at time of drafting: twenty million dollars.”
Claire didn’t even try to hide the satisfaction in her eyes. My relatives murmured as if they’d just heard a celebrity’s net worth. Someone actually let out a little laugh—like this was a show.
Then Donovan looked down again. “Ethan Bennett will receive… Mr. Bennett’s personal laptop computer and any digital contents stored on it.”
For a second, it was silent. Then the room broke. Not cruel laughter at first—more like disbelief—until it turned sharp. My cousin snorted. My aunt whispered, “Oh my God.” Claire’s lips curled into a smirk like she’d been waiting for this exact line.
“That’s it?” she said, loud enough for everyone. “Dad really did know who could handle responsibility.”
I stared at the table, heat rising up my neck. My father’s old laptop wasn’t even new when he bought it. The hinge was loose. The casing had scratches. He used it for invoices, emails, and the occasional online chess game.
Claire leaned forward, voice sweet and cutting. “Dad knew you’re junk, Ethan, so he gave you what you deserve.”
I wanted to argue, but nothing came out right. I’d been the “messy” one—different jobs, a couple of mistakes, no polished resume. But I’d shown up for Dad. I’d taken him to appointments. I’d fixed things around his house. None of that mattered in that room.
When the reading ended, people stood, already dividing my father into numbers and property. Claire brushed past me, perfumed and confident, and my relatives followed her like she’d won something.
I left with the laptop tucked under my arm, feeling small and stupid. In my car, I set it on the passenger seat like it weighed a hundred pounds. Back at my apartment, I plugged it in, watched the old screen flicker to life, and typed the only password I could think of—my mom’s birthday.
The desktop loaded. One folder sat front and center.
It was labeled: ETHAN—OPEN THIS FIRST.
My hands went cold. I clicked it, and the first file that opened wasn’t a letter.
It was a crypto wallet interface—already logged in—showing a balance that made my vision blur:
$50,000,000.00
And in that moment, I finally understood why my dad had been so “careful” with that old laptop....To be continued in C0mments 👇

03/01/2026

Her voice was strangely sweet. “We have such great taste,” she chirped. The whole room suddenly fell silent. My husband froze. But then she saw his mother walking toward us. The smile disappeared from her face. Her mouth dropped open when my mother-in-law said…
Her voice was so sweet it almost sounded rehearsed. “We have such good taste,” she chirped, holding up a pair of champagne flutes like she’d just delivered the punchline of a private joke. The words floated above the clink of glass and the soft music in our new living room—and then the entire place went quiet, like someone had muted the party.
I stood there with my own flute half-raised, blinking at her. I’d never met her before tonight. At least, not formally.
My husband, Mark, didn’t blink. He didn’t smile. He didn’t even breathe the way he normally did when he was nervous. He just froze, shoulders locked, eyes fixed on the woman in the pale green dress.
This was supposed to be our housewarming. A fresh start after a brutal year of long hours, moving boxes, and saving every spare dollar. Our friends were scattered around the kitchen island, his coworkers had squeezed onto the couch, and my sister was in the hallway taking pictures of the “first home” sign she’d made. Mark’s mom, Diane, had insisted on bringing her famous lemon bars, and she’d been in the back garden with our neighbors talking about roses.
The woman in green—Chloe, she’d said her name was—smiled brightly as if silence was applause. “Mark told me you’d love these,” she continued, gesturing at the flutes, and her eyes flicked to him with a familiarity that made my stomach dip. “He said you appreciate the little details.”
Mark’s jaw tightened. “Chloe,” he said, but it came out like a warning, not a greeting.
A few people shifted uncomfortably. One of Mark’s coworkers stared hard at the floor. My sister’s camera lowered. Someone cleared their throat and pretended to check their phone.
I forced myself to keep my voice steady. “That’s thoughtful,” I said, though my hand was starting to sweat against the glass. “How do you know Mark?”
Chloe’s smile didn’t move, but her eyes did. “Oh, we—”
Before she could finish, the back door slid open. Diane walked in, carrying a tray of lemon bars, her face warm and proud—until she saw Chloe.
Diane stopped so abruptly the tray tilted. She caught it, but not before one lemon bar slid crooked. Her eyes narrowed, not in confusion, but recognition.
Chloe’s expression changed in an instant. The sweetness drained from her face as if someone flipped a switch. Her lips parted, and for the first time, she looked scared.
The room was so silent I could hear the hum of the refrigerator.
Diane set the tray down with a careful, deliberate motion and stepped toward us. She didn’t look at Mark first. She looked straight at Chloe.
And then, in a voice sharp enough to cut through the quiet, Diane said, “So you’re the one. The woman who was with my son the night his wife was in the hospital.”...To be continued in C0mments 👇

03/01/2026

After my grandpa’s funeral, my family took all of his agricultural land and only left me a “worthless” patch of desert. My sister mocked me, saying, “We sold ours for $200K, but yours is only worth $10.” Everyone laughed. But a few days later, a tech giant offered to pay me $40 million for that same land to build their new headquarters. Now I’m the one laughing. (On the check:) Pay to the order of $40,000,00. Forty million dollars. Memo. CEO.
After my grandpa Mateo’s funeral, the air in my aunt’s living room felt thicker than the desert heat outside. Everyone spoke in soft voices until the lawyer opened the folder. My family expected a straightforward split: the irrigated alfalfa fields along the canal would be divided among my uncles and my older sister, Sofia. I was the quiet one who’d moved to Las Vegas for work and came home only on holidays. Mateo had different plans. In his careful handwriting, he left the productive farmland to the relatives who’d worked it with him. Then he left me a separate parcel—thirty-five acres of scrub and sand on the far edge of the property line, a triangle of land that sat beyond the last irrigation pipe. No well, no crop history, no road except a rutted track. Sofia didn’t even try to hide her smile. “So that’s what you get for disappearing,” she said, loud enough for everyone to hear. “We sold our share of the fields for two hundred grand. Yours? Ten bucks, maybe. Frame the deed.” The room erupted in laughter—nervous, mean, relieved that the “worthless” land belonged to someone else. I swallowed my pride and signed the paperwork. I told myself Mateo probably meant it as a token, a reminder of home. I drove back to Vegas with the deed on the passenger seat and the sound of Sofia’s laugh stuck in my ears. Three days later, an email arrived from a firm I’d never heard of: Desert Ridge Land Services. The subject line was bland—“Inquiry Regarding Parcel APN 017-22-401.” I almost deleted it as spam. Instead, I opened it and stared at the number on the first page: an offer to purchase my parcel for forty million dollars, contingent on inspection and clear title. The buyer: Orion Systems, a global tech company looking to build a new headquarters and data center campus. I reread the letter until the words blurred. Forty million. For sand. For the land my sister called a joke. My hands shook as I called the number. A man with a crisp, American accent answered, introduced himself as Victor Hale, and said, “We’ve been tracking this corridor for months. Your parcel is the key piece.” Before I could ask why, my phone buzzed with a text from Sofia: “Who’s Victor Hale? He just called Mom. What did you do?” I looked out my apartment window at the Strip lights and felt my stomach drop. Somehow, the secret had already leaked back home, and I hadn’t even understood what I was holding....To be continued in C0mments 👇

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