Chapter 1: The Longest Night
Chapter 1: The Longest Night
The cold hit me like a thousand knives.
Every breath burned my lungs. Frost crept across the metal walls as the darkness closed in around me. My fingers were numb, but my mind had never been clearer.
He believed panic would finish what greed had started.
He had rehearsed it perfectly.
A broken freezer lock.
A missing wife.
A tragic accident.
By the time anyone found me, he expected the evidence to be buried beneath sympathy.
But he underestimated one thing.
I had stopped trusting him months ago.
The late-night phone calls.
The secret meetings.
The hidden bank transfers.
The perfume that wasn't mine.
I didn't confront him.
I prepared.
I hired a private investigator.
I copied every financial record.
I installed hidden cameras in our home, the office, and even the warehouse where he thought no one would ever look.
Every conversation with his lawyer.
Every meeting with his mistress.
Every plan to erase me.
Safely stored in multiple encrypted drives and scheduled to upload automatically if my heartbeat monitor ever stopped transmitting.
As the temperature continued to fall, I looked at the small emergency beacon hidden inside my watch.
One press.
That's all it took.
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Somewhere outside...
The countdown had already begun.
