The danger hits home
The threat on the phone turned Carter’s growing worry into a cold, hard fear. The thought that he was being watched, that his brief interaction with Avery had somehow made him a target, felt like a trap slowly closing in around him.
What had started as a simple desire to help now seemed to have drawn him into the center of something far more dangerous. The weight of his situation pressed down on him, an unexpected burden that he wasn’t prepared for.
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