Piecing Clues

Victor

She froze instantly. Like ice. The kind that crackles before it shatters.

“Haze?” I breathed against her ear, low and deliberate. “Time’s ticking.”

Her lashes fluttered, snapping her out of whatever memory had gripped her. “Where did you hear that name? Who told you that?”

I leaned back, a slow shrug rolling through my shoulders. “The walls have ears… and lips. Sometimes they talk.”

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