After a tiresome day, Karen headed straight to her bedroom to catch some z's.

She wove through a tapestry of bizarre dreams, only to be jostled awake by the persistent knocking of her dad, Derek.

Bleary-eyed, her hand instinctively searched for her phone to check the time, but then it hit her that her phone was busted.

"Karen?" Derek's knocks continued, a steady rhythm against her door.

She quickly ran her fingers through her hair, "Coming, coming!" Swinging the door open, she found Derek with a box in hand, "Karen, someone dropped this off for you. He said your phone got busted by accident, and this is the replacement.” Karen bit her lips. She knew in a heartbeat it was Jeffrey’s doing. And what did he mean by "by accident"? "Is it for you?" Derek asked. Sensing her silence, his voice was tinged with caution.

"Yeah, someone wrecked my phone and mentioned something about a replacement." She took the box without ceremony.

After all, it was indeed Jeffrey's fault, and he wasn’t hurting for cash. But she was.

A new phone would set her back a few hundred bucks.

thought it was some scam," Derek chuckled;

in return before taking the new phone

set up

it, she found the latest, most expensive model from the

had

brows knitted in displeasure, but upon booting it up, she realized it was new—her card had

when he left? That was

at the time, Karen hadn't

ID, and began downloading her go-to apps. Before she could

yet to be transferred, the caller was

Her tone was

Karen?" The voice on the

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