Chapter 38

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Lana's POV There were two voices, one in my ear and the other at the doorway. I was so distracted. I waited for Jasper to talk but he was not saying anything. Another person, a lady, picked the call and I heard his voice from the background. "Who is there?" He asked. "It's an unknown number," the girl replied. He told the girl to hang up the call. The line went dead before I could breathe a single word into it. I stood there for a half second with a disconnected phone pressed against my ear and the particular hollowness of a plan that had just collapsed before it had fully taken shape. The girl's voice had been unhurried, domestic almost, the voice of someone completely at ease in a space she considered her own. I filed that away without examining it, because the doorway was still oc

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