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NATE

I felt cold to the marrow of my bones.

Vivian was in danger.

I could not process anything else but this information. I wanted it to not be true so badly that I closed my mind to the possibility, telling myself that there must have been a mix-up somewhere.

Surely, Vivian was still in the living room where I had left her. I only had to walk down the stairs and I would see her bent over her laptop, with frown lines on her face alternating between reading two news articles.

"What do you mean? Vivian is with me." I said, the doubt in my words evident even to my own ears.

"Richard is planning to hurt her. In a very brutal way. Please confirm her location immediately."

The voice of the spy I had placed on Richard echoed like a broken tape in my head. He was one of the very few guys I trusted because of his competence and because he was discreet, so I had entrusted the job of tailing and spying on Richard to him and thus far, he had done his money's worth.

I did not wait for him t