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Ch-1 (If I Find You, I Will Kill You)
**The Call**
It was 2:37 a.m. when Samira woke with a jolt, her heart **badum... badum... badum**, thudding so hard it echoed in her ears. A phone rang sharply on the nightstand, slicing through the suffocating silence of her apartment.
She groggily grabbed the phone, hands trembling slightly. **The room was dark and cold**, the kind of cold that seemed to cling to her skin, making the fine hairs on her arms stand up. Without checking the caller ID, she answered.
“Hello?” she whispered, her voice hoarse.
At first, there was nothing—just a faint **shh, shhh** sound, as if someone was breathing quietly on the other end. Then the voice came, low and deliberate, **like a knife dragging across stone.**
**“If I find you... I will kill you.”**
Samira’s breath hitched. **Her pulse raced faster—badum, badum, badum.** Before she could say anything, the line went dead.
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