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The car slowed to a stop in front of my house, the quiet hum of the engine the only sound filling the tense space.

For a moment, I didn’t move.

I could still sense the heaviness of that voice, how it crept into my thoughts as if it had embedded something within me—something I couldn’t remove.

I wet my lips, looking at the driver, my heart racing.

He didn't even glance my way. Just reached across the console and unlocked the door.

“You’re home,” he said, voice eerily neutral.

I hesitated. Like nothing had happened.

Like I hadn’t been kidnapped. Like I hadn’t been warned. Like I hadn’t just been pulled into a game I didn’t understand.

My fingers trembled as I pushed open the door and stepped out.

The night air felt too cold, too sharp against my skin.

I turned back, my lips parting—to say what, I wasn’t sure.

But before I could blink—

The car was gone.

No screeching tires. No roaring engine.

Just… gone.

Like it had never been there at all.

I stood frozen in plac
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