... _Chapter 4: Marks of Obsession_...
... (The Shadow) ♣️💜...
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...📍Location: East London, Underground Surveillance Room...
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...The screen flickers....
...Her face appears....
...Not in fear....
...Not in anger....
...But something worse....
...Confusion....
...She's getting closer....
...I lean forward, gloved fingers pressed to my lips as I watch her unwrap the scarf and discover the USB — again....
...Her brows furrow....
...Her heartbeat slows....
...She’s thinking....
...Good....
...Think harder....
...Behind me, the soft hum of cooling servers fills the dark room....
...CCTV feeds dance across the wall —...
...all centered on one woman....
...Her....
...Abellona Rushell....
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...I've studied her for months....
...Her habits....
...Her late-night writing patterns....
...Her tendency to leave the stove on when She's lost in thought....
...The world thinks she’s just a novelist....
...But I know better....
...I’ve read her drafts before her editor has....
...I've walked the same streets before she’s even woken up....
...“She’s trying to solve it,” I whisper to no one....
...“And I’m trying to see how far she'll go before she breaks.”...
...I reach into my coat and pull out the knife — not the one I left under her notebook....
...Another. Sharper....
...Clean....
...For now....
...My phone buzzes once....
...'Seline'— my second-in-command hacker — texts from the backroom:...
...“MI5 database breached. Got you another missing girl file. Same pattern.”...
...Another girl....
...Same eyes....
...Same mark....
...“Add it to the folder,” I replied....
...“She’ll need it soon.”...
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...I walk to the glass wall and stare at the city beyond — London soaked in rain and filth and silence....
...Somewhere, a woman screams....
...Somewhere else, a deal is being made over someone’s corpse....
...But right here?...
...There’s only an obsession....
...Control....
...And me....
...“You still don’t know, do you?”...
...I murmur toward her image on the screen....
...“The girl in your book? She’s not fiction.”...
...“She’s a message.”...
...“And you were always meant to receive it.”...
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...I flash back to that night....
...Rain pounding on the rooftop....
...The girl running through alleys, barefoot and bleeding....
...The way she looked at me when she realized no one was coming to help....
...I didn’t kill her....
...But I didn't stop it either....
...And that’s the difference....
...Monsters kill for pleasure....
...I do it for a purpose....
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...I sit again and open the hidden drawer beside me....
...Inside:...
...A necklace (the same one in the photo)....
...A blood-stained page from Abellona’s old journal....
...A burner phone....
...I tap the screen....
...And type a message:...
...“Did you sleep well, Little Sin?”...
...“You look beautiful when you dream of murder.”...
...Then I press send....
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...Her phone lights up on her nightstand....
...She won’t see it until morning....
...But I’ll watch her expression when she does....
...Like I always do....
...Like I always have....
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...End of Chapter 4🖤...
What will she do after that? Is she his next prey or is he saving her from something horrible, terror and the scariest thing? Or maybe he is a Devil himself.
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