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Chapters (66)
  1. PREFACE
  2. Full Page Image
  3. ONE
  4. TWO
  5. One week ago
  6. THREE
  7. Present day
  8. FOUR
  9. FIVE
  10. SIX
  11. SEVEN
  12. EIGHT
  13. NINE
  14. TEN
  15. ELEVEN
  16. TWELVE
  17. THIRTEEN
  18. FOURTEEN
  19. FIFTEEN
  20. SIXTEEN
  21. SEVENTEEN
  22. EIGHTEEN
  23. NINETEEN
  24. TWENTY
  25. TWENTY-ONE
  26. TWENTY-TWO
  27. TWENTY-THREE
  28. TWENTY-FOUR
  29. TWENTY-FIVE
  30. TWENTY-SIX
  31. TWENTY-SEVEN
  32. TWENTY-EIGHT
  33. TWENTY-NINE
  34. THIRTY
  35. THIRTY-ONE
  36. THIRTY-TWO
  37. THIRTY-THREE
  38. THIRTY-FOUR
  39. THIRTY-FIVE
  40. THIRTY-SIX
  41. THIRTY-SEVEN
  42. THIRTY-EIGHT
  43. THIRTY-NINE
  44. FORTY
  45. FORTY-ONE
  46. FORTY-TWO
  47. FORTY-THREE
  48. FORTY-FOUR
  49. FORTY-FIVE
  50. FORTY-SIX
  51. FORTY-SEVEN
  52. FORTY-EIGHT
  53. FORTY-NINE
  54. FIFTY
  55. FIFTY-ONE
  56. FIFTY-TWO
  57. FIFTY-THREE
  58. FIFTY-FOUR
  59. FIFTY-FIVE
  60. FIFTY-SIX
  61. FIFTY-SEVEN
  62. FIFTY-EIGHT
  63. FIFTY-NINE
  64. SIXTY
  65. SIXTY-ONE
  66. SIXTY-TWO

But my smile quickly falls as one of our conversations suddenly echoes in my mind.

"If I were a ghost, I'd never leave your side," he joked as we watched a movie. "I'd haunt you for an eternity."

I smiled lazily at him, taking his words as jest.

"But then you'd never have peace," I countered, thinking about the movie's idea of an afterlife where souls go to either Heaven or Hell.

"You are the only peace I seek," he whispered.

Back then, I never thought I'd be a moment without him, or that life would be so cruel to take him away from me so young. Back then, I thought it was the two of us against the world, in our little world, and no one could ever intrude on that.

But I was wrong.

I was wrong to take everything for granted.

Yet here I am, being given a second chance.

Every breath I take, the world I live in changes irrevocably, and with it my perception of what's real and what's not—of what's good or bad. Every second, I feel as if my sanity is under threat by all this new fantastical information foraging its way into my brain. But the truth is, my sanity's been slipping away from me from the moment I heard that last love confession on my Nikki's lips. When he died, I died too. That I was still alive was a cosmical farce—or so I thought.

I have another chance. Against all odds, I have another chance to see my love again. And it doesn't matter if this game is just another farcical collection of absurdities. It doesn't matter if I can make sense of it or not. As long as I get him back, I'm willing to do anything.

A gong sound echoes through the entire building, startling me from my musings.

"It's midnight. You have until midnight a week from now to resolve your cases. If not, you will fail. Those who succeed will receive an invitation to the next phase of the game."

"Wait, what happens if we fail?" I ask in a low voice. Had they even mentioned it? They'd only told us what happened if we died in the game.

"You die," Thea states in an empty voice. "If you don't complete the trial, you die."

* * *

"How will we find the location?" Thea asks as the three of us leave the club.

The chilly air of the night hits my face. I inhale deeply, glad for the absence of pain in my chest.

"We need a smartphone with GPS," I answer.

Both Thea and Cer stop in their tracks, their brows furrowed as they stare at me.

I raise my brows in question.

"What is a GPS?" Thea asks. "And what is a smartphone?"

"You don't know?"

Both shake their heads.