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What Happens When A Secret Affair Becomes A Reign Of Terror

When a threat of imminent danger becomes a fight for survival (Part Two)

Liam Ireland
ILLUMINATION
Published in
10 min readSep 8, 2024

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Author’s Note:

If you perchance open this article first please read part one first, via the following link, for it all to make sense. Thank you.

When you overhear a private phone call in which it sounds like your premature demise is being discussed, it’s time to listen up very intently indeed.

Over the following days, lots of things were clamouring my mind space. For example, there were lots and lots of late-night telephone calls when as soon as I answered the phone the line would be cut. Strangely, this never happened to Alice. I presumed it was lover boy until I inadvertently gave Alice the seed of an idea, an excuse as to why that was happening to cover up the real reason.

At one point I let slip to Alice that only people out on the prowl in the hours of darkness, even if it was only a prowl on a mobile…

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Liam Ireland
ILLUMINATION

Author, writer, Illumination Editor, Top Writer in short stories and poetry.https://www.amazon.com/author/ryanobryan