00:00Confused and trembling, I hurried back to my room, shut the door with a trembling click, and snatched my phone
00:06off the nightstand.
00:07I unlocked the screen to check the time.
00:09It was 2.01 a.m.
00:12Right beneath the clock, my lock screen displayed a string of unread text bubbles from my dad.
00:17How are you feeling? Still awake? Let me know if you need anything.
00:21And then, the last message.
00:24Time stamped at 1.40 a.m., just 20 minutes ago.
00:27Just heading out now, on my way home.
00:30My blood turned to ice water.
00:33My stomach plummeted into a bottomless void.
00:37My dad worked an hour away.
00:39Even if he had left, the second he sent that text, he couldn't possibly be home for another 40 minutes.
00:46The man wandering around our master bedroom was not my dad.
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