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Part 1 – Chapter 7
At eight o’clock sharp the next morning, Mr. Personality knocks on my door. Pounds on it, actually, with brutal force. As if he’s the leader of a SWAT team, and he’s been tasked with taking down a group of crazed hostage-takers to save a hundred people’s lives. I open the door and stare at him. “Good morning, Mr. Leighrite. What’s the emergency?” Frowning, he looks me up and down. Because the house is freezing, I’m wearing a bulky sweater with a down vest over it along with…-
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Part 1 – Chapter 6
I take a while to pull myself together, splash water from the bathroom faucet on my face, and dry my eyes. Then I put a stamp on an envelope, slide the letter inside and seal it, and take it out to the mailbox. When I return to the kitchen, Aidan is nowhere in sight. I go into the laundry room and finish folding the towels, go back to the kitchen and empty the plastic buckets into the sink, replace them on the floor under the drips, then stare into the fridge in search of something I know I won’t eat…-
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Part 1 – Chapter 5
Dear Dante, I don’t have any money, so go pick on someone else if that’s what you’re after. Seriously, I’m broke. Who are you? What do you want? Why did you contact me? You said you know me, but you’re wrong. I don’t know anyone with your name, much less anyone in prison. I’m not judging you, so you know. But I’d like to know what you did to get yourself there. Actually, forget it. I’m only writing now to ask you to stop contacting me. If you send another letter, I’ll give…-
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Part 1 – Chapter 4
I stand next to the kitchen window with the letter in my hands and read it again in the gray afternoon light. Then again. Then once more, because it’s so bizarre, my brain refuses to come up with any plausible explanations for it. Probably because there aren’t any. The overhead lights flicker back on, illuminating the room. Throwing my arms in the air, I say to the ceiling, “I wish you’d done that when Mr. Everything’s Great Eddie was here!” Then I fold the letter, put it back into…-
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Part 1 – Chapter 36
I stare wide-eyed at the coin and the ring with my pulse throbbing and a scream trapped inside my chest, knowing that there’s something extremely significant here that I’m missing. When I glance up at Claire, she says calmly, “Call the detective.” I whisper, “How did my ring fall through the ceiling?” “Call the detective, Kayla. We don’t have much time.” “What do you mean? What’s happening?” Outside, the storm is gathering power. Rain lashes the windows and roof.…-
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Part 1 – Chapter 35
Fiona and Claire find me in the kitchen, huddled on the floor in a corner with my back against the cabinets and my knees drawn up to my chin. Glancing around, Claire asks, “Why did you open all the cabinets and drawers?” “They were open when I got here.” My laugh sounds unhinged. “The resident ghost thinks it’s hilarious to do stuff like that.” The sisters look at each other, then at me. Claire suggests gently, “Why don’t we all sit at the table and have a chat?” “A chat…-
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Part 1 – Chapter 34
Fiona informs me that the full moon is tomorrow night, so we can conduct the séance right away. She tells me I’m lucky we can get it done so quickly. I don’t feel lucky. I feel cursed. I don’t say that aloud, however, because I don’t want to tempt fate into proving it. I spend the rest of that day and the next in a state of high anxiety, every so often glancing at my left hand. I’m surprised each time to find my wedding band still there on my ring finger. Aidan was correct when he…-
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Part 1 – Chapter 33
Dear Dante, Thank you for the advice. I must say, however, it was shitty. “You are the storm. What are your thunder and lightning telling you?” Was that really supposed to be helpful? Because it wasn’t. Please forgive the rudeness, but my life is falling apart. Correction, it already fell apart. I’m just wandering around in all the broken pieces, kicking up dust and cutting my feet on shards of glass. And by the way, what was that whole thing about the love that turned the stars and the…-
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Part 1 – Chapter 32
I say crossly to the letter in my hand, “If I knew what all my thunder and lightning were telling me, I wouldn’t have asked you for advice!” Maybe Dante was sent to prison for being criminally irritating. With a sigh of frustration, I slap the letter down on my desktop and stare glumly out the window into the rainy afternoon. More damn rain. It’s like the weather is in on some evil plot to drive me even nuttier than I already am. It’s been two weeks since I’ve had contact with…-
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Part 1 – Chapter 31
Dear Kayla, You asked if I have words of wisdom for you. The answer is yes. Here they are: You are not controlling the storm, and you are not lost in it. You are the storm. I’d love to take credit for that, but it’s from a writer by the name of Sam Harris. He was arguing that free will is an illusion, which I’m sure you’ll agree is a thoroughly depressing idea. Bypassing the dour philosophical stance, however, I really like the perspective that chaos isn’t outside us. It’s always…-
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