Haunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse, #1)
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Read between August 26 - August 29, 2025
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“You’re such a bitch, Addie. All you do is give me blue balls and I’m sick of it. I’m done with you and this creepy fucking house,” he seethes, pointing a finger at me. 
Vanois
Boy bye!
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I created an entire organization built solely around ending human trafficking.
Vanois
👏🏿👏🏿👌🏿👌🏿
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God, this was stupid.
Vanois
Sure was!
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There’s no stopping Addie from opening her mouth and telling the cops she has a stalker. Doesn’t matter that I’ve destroyed all evidence of her police report.
Vanois
I figured he did that.
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Archie wouldn’t know how to have proper rough sex if he was given a fucking manual for it. He hurts women because he enjoys it. He doesn’t know how to push women to the edge of pain and pleasure, balancing between the two and making them desperate for more. 
Vanois
Sadist
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It was my shadow who took him. And with having no idea who he is, there’s really no way to find Arch.
Vanois
Yeah. He dead.
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The fucker actually did it. He sent me Arch’s hands. A part of me knew he wouldn’t lie, but somehow, I didn’t believe it, anyway.
Vanois
He told you!
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“Authorities reported Arch’s entire family dead. His father, two brothers, an uncle, and two cousins. I don’t know the details because the crime was fucking smooth as hell. No witnesses. No evidence. Nothing.”
Vanois
He got all of them hoe! He's insane but good!
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“There has to be significance to that ripped-out page,” I murmur, growing frustrated by the lack of evidence. I could never be a detective and do this shit every day.
Vanois
Same.
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I sigh, my shoulders drooping. “That could literally be anywhere, or not even exist anymore.”
Vanois
Might be in the attic...
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She’s mentioned before that she deals with the dark web and human trafficking. And that alone is enough to give someone night terrors.
Vanois
She works with him. lol
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UNKNOWN: You didn’t like my flowers?
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Now I’m going to make my way through the government, starting with the four politicians from the first video, and then making my way through the rest.
Vanois
Get DT while you're at it.
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“911, what’s your emergency?”
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Welp. Now you're getting punished 🤷🏿‍♀️
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UNKNOWN: The more you disobey me, the harder your punishment.
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Tell me not to do something, and I’ll only want to do it more.
Vanois
She's a brat! Welcome to the club!
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But it’s useless. He’s too big. Too heavy. Too fucking imposing. 
Vanois
Gurl. Take some self defense classes!
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She hasn’t given it to me yet, but she will. I know my little mouse better than she knows herself. She’s in too much denial to see how drawn she is to me. If she wasn’t, she wouldn’t instigate, pushing to get her clit bitten, knowing damn well I stay true to my word.
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She was just being bratty. I would have done the same thing.
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I arch a brow, unimpressed with how low she has to bounce. Addie would never have that issue.
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😳😳
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The smell of burnt flesh fills the area. One dickhead even waves his hand in front of his nose dramatically, as if it’s her fault it smells. She drops her arm and just stands there, a glazed look in her eyes. After closer inspection, I notice that the entirety of her arm is covered in burn scars. Old and fresh. All in different stages of healing and plenty of fresh burns from tonight.
Vanois
Burn the whole place down.
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“Addie, I love you and I’m going to say this with all my love. But don’t project. I’m starting to get the feeling that you want Ronaldo to be the killer because in your head, that will criminalize your stalker, too. Please tell me that’s not why you’re seeking justice for Gigi. Because you’re looking for a reason to hate your stalker when in actuality, you don’t.”
Vanois
Truth.
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“Mommy, are they having sex?”
Vanois
😂😂
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For starters, can I go home now?
Vanois
But you wanted to go...
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different. I’ll finally have a night where my headspace isn’t filled with dangerous men and a murder gone cold.
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Welp 🤷🏿‍♀️
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“Jackal”
Vanois
Huh.
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The broken doll must be conspiring with God because only divine fucking intervention would bring all of them together like this.
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Jackal could be a code word.
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niggles
Vanois
Something what?!
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“Run,” he growls. My lungs constrict at the guttural command. “If I catch you, I fuck you.”
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“She was already marked.”
Vanois
Huh.
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S ibby took the fall for the murders.
Vanois
😔
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He murdered four government politicians.
Vanois
Technically, one...
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what if he tries to take out the goddamn President next?
Vanois
Do it.
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“I have never pretended to be a good person. But what I did do was create my own fucking morals to live by. I will keep killing every deranged individual who resides on this goddamn planet if it means children don’t have to die, and you don't have to live in danger.”
Vanois
He's a good man Savannah.