CHAPTER ELEVEN
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Back to present day
July 19th
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RYAN DIDN’T REPLY ANYTHING for a while, and the silence grew menacing.
“Are you still there?” she asked after almost a minute.
“Yes, I am. I’m here, Kate. And when I say here, that means here,” his reply came heatedly.
Not a second later, heavy footsteps sounded on the veranda surrounding the house. Kate glanced there, and her eyes fell on Ryan. The man was coming toward her, an ugly scowl tugging at the corners of his lips.
Ryan turned off his phone, looking at her steadily. The expression on his face didn’t announce anything good.
Kate’s legs fell off the other chair with a loud clang. The woman froze in place and forgot to turn off her phone. By rote, she managed to let it fall on the table in slow motion. Her gree
