I won a massive lottery jackpot — $384 million — but I didn’t tell a soul. And the first thing I did wasn’t celebrate. I just sat there, letting the silence swallow the room. I wanted to know who would really still be there for me, so I called my family and pretended I’d hit rock bottom and needed help right away. I sat alone in my living room, the TV still on… and when the numbers started appearing, the remote slipped right out of my hand…

If you step inside, she doesn’t wake up tomorrow.

I froze, looked around, and that’s when I saw a small red dot flicker briefly on my jacket sleeve, like a laser sight, before disappearing.

They weren’t bluffing. They were watching me.

Right then and there, I backed away from the door, hands in the air, even though I couldn’t see anyone. My heart was hammering so fast it hurt. Whoever they were, they wanted me scared, and it was working.

I got back in my car and drove off the lot. After a few blocks, the phone buzzed again.

Good. Now listen. We’ll give you instructions tomorrow. Don’t talk to anyone. Don’t move the ticket again. If you do, she disappears.

No signature, no number I could trace. Just the same faceless threat.

I pulled into an empty rest stop off the interstate and sat there until sunrise. I kept thinking about Lily, what she might be going through, if she was even still alive. I tried to picture her voice, her laugh, anything that could ground me, but all I could hear was that message in my head.

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