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I woke to the sound of my phone skittering across the bedside table. I blindly grabbed for it, sending it clattering to the floor in my stupor. Groaning, I blinked the sleep from my eyes and bent over the side of the bed to retrieve my phone. It had a text from Sage that displayed on my phone’s locked screen.
‘Meet at High Time in one hour.’
Blood pounded in my ears. Why did she want to meet in an hour? As far as I knew the service for Vera wasn’t until late morning. I tapped the message to open it in the app to find that she’d sent the message to everyone on the staff group message. It wasn’t just me. She probably just wanted help setting everything up.
Laying back against the pillows, I let my heart rate return to normal. Even with the close distance between Maggie’s flat and High
