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The notification woke Silvia up a couple of hours before dawn. Guillermo was still sleeping, and she moved carefully to keep from waking him up. Nothing on her phone. Good. Her siblings hadn’t been arrested, robbed, killed, and she didn’t need to rush to the rescue. Then what? She saw she’d left the tablet on and grabbed it, frowning.
A DM? It was four AM on a Sunday in Argentina, and Jim had never written to her on his Saturday midnight. The message itself swept away any trace of sleep.
“U there?”
Her heart hammered her chest as she replied, “You okay?”
She got out of bed and grabbed a blanket to tiptoe out of her room, cursing every second Jim took to answer. What could’ve happened to him? Was he alright?
His second DM found her lighting a cigarette by the dining-room table.
“Gimme a # 2 call u.”
Shit! What happened? She sent him her number, the cigarette trembling between her fingers, and
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