I found the phone by accident. It slid out from under the passenger seat when I hit the brakes too hard at a red light—an unfamiliar weight, a dull black rectangle that I knew immediately wasn’t mine. My husband, Daniel, was meticulous about his things.
If this were his everyday phone, I would’ve seen it before. But I hadn’t. My fingers hesitated for just a second before I picked it up.
No passcode. No notifications. Just a blank home screen and one single contact saved under the letter “S.”
My stomach tightened.
There were 64 missed calls. All from the same person. I don’t remember deciding to press “call.” I just did.
The line rang once. Then twice. And then a woman answered, her voice breaking before she even finished her first word.
“Hello?”
I swallowed. “Hi… I—”
She didn’t let me finish. “Oh God,” she sobbed, her breath hitching violently.
“Is he dead? Is it over?”
Everything inside me went cold. “I—what?” I stammered.
But she had already hung up. I stared at the screen, my reflection faintly staring back at me—wide-eyed, pale, unrecognizable. Dead?
Is it over? My mind raced to places I didn’t want it to go. Affairs.
Double lives. Something criminal. Something worse.
But there was one more thing on the phone. A GPS history. And before I could talk myself out of it, I followed it.
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The location led me to a quiet street I had never noticed before. Tucked between two taller buildings was a small, discreet clinic. No bold signage.
Just a simple plaque by the door. My hands trembled as I stepped inside. The receptionist looked up politely.
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