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CAUGHT IN THE THE STORM

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Chapter 0048.

CAUGHT IN THE THE STORM

ELENA,

The Reykjavik air was sharp, cutting through my coat like ice-cold daggers, seeping into my skin despite the layers I wore. A gust of wind howled through the narrow streets, rattling the café’s windows behind me as I stepped onto the sidewalk, cradling a steaming cup of coffee in my gloved hands. But the warmth barely touched me. Not the cold, not even the wind, was what unsettled me most. It was the feeling curling in my stomach like a viper coiling tight.

Something was wrong.

The streets were quiet, the kind of eerie silence that stretched beyond the usual hush of winter nights. A few pedestrians shuffled by, wrapped in thick scarves and heavy coats, heads bowed against the wind. Reykjavik was the perfect city for anonymity, for slipping into the shadows and being no one. That was why I had chosen it. A place where people minded their own business, where I could blend into the background, unnoticed, unseen.

But I didn’t feel invisible now
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