The CEO's Regret: Darling, Don’t Leave Me novel Chapter 192

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Chapter 135 Something Doesn’t Chick-2

Chapter 135: Something Doesn’t Click.-2

That gives me a little motivation, and I get dressed faster than usual, almost automatically.

As if I need to be ready, but why… I don’t know.

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I walk back to the kitchen; I’m going to make something to eat. Something simple, something to distract

I open the refrigerator and take out a few things. I start moving around, chopping, organizing, breathing. But my eyes… they move on their own.

Toward the door, toward the hallway, toward anywhere that isn’t in front of me.

“Enough…”

For a second I felt fear. I thought about picking up the phone and calling Ethan, putting the call on speakerphone so his voice would keep me company, but I shook my head.

I continued what I was doing.

I picked up the knife and started chopping… the knife tapped gently against the cutting board, once, twice,

three times.

And then… I hear it.

A very faint noise. But clear.

It wasn’t coming from the kitchen, it was coming from the back of the hallway.

My body literally froze. The knife hung suspended in my hand.

My breath caught in my throat.

“Hello…?”

My voice comes out softer than I expected, no one answers. Silence returns.

But now… it’s different.

Heavier, more dangerous.

I swallow, slowly placing the knife on the table. My feet move… One step, then another.

Slowly, almost silently.

My heart beats hard, too hard.

“It must be nothing…”

Yes, that’s right. Nothing… It’s always nothing.

I said “nothing” to feel better, but I was dying slowly. Nothing, and I wanted to pretend, but when I reach

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the edge of the hallway… I feel it… That presence, that certainty. I’m not alone.

And then… then he emerges from nowhere, from the darkness, from that point I wasn’t seeing.

A man.

My body reacts before my mind, a loud, desperate scream.

“AH!”

I can’t back away.

I can’t run, because he’s already there. Right in front of me, too close.

His hand moves quickly, toward me. Toward my neck, and the world… shatters.

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I didn’t know this feeling, I didn’t know this experience. In my life, fd never seen dangers or risks. I think no one ever prepared me for something like this, and that’s why, from the moment I saw something strange, I preferred to lie to myself to feel safe.

I guess that’s how it all is, isn’t it?

In a moment of fear, you don’t think about many things; it’s as if your mind goes blank for a moment, trying to understand what’s happening.

What could I do? What can I do?

With his hands already on my neck, it’s hard for me to be calm, to control myself, and to think of anything coherent that will keep me safe.

No one prepares us for a moment of anguish.

In my mind, I told myself, memorize his face; that was the most coherent thing to do. But I couldn’t even

do that.

“Ah!” I shouted again, but my voice wasn’t the same anymore.

I tried to struggle, I tried to break free, but nothing worked.

Is today my day to die?

Maybe that’s why everything was going wrong, right? Because I should have left.

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