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Chapter 20
Author: Pink
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"Tell your brother that the countdown isn't for what he thinks—it's for his coronation."

The line went dead before Ethan could respond, but not before he heard his sister's sharp intake of breath, the sound of a child being yanked away from a phone she wasn't supposed to answer. The dial tone hummed in his ear like a funeral dirge played on a kazoo—absurd and horrifying at once.

The burner phone slipped from his fingers. He didn't feel it shatter against the marble floor. He didn't feel anythin
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