Chapter 1 - The Ash and The Echo
Chapter 1 - The Ash and The Echo
The half-renovated kitchen fell into a suffocating silence.
The morning sunlight cut through the floating dust, revealing every crack in the unfinished walls.
The contractor stood frozen beside the newly built drywall.
He had heard something that no one else wanted to believe.
A voice.
A child's voice.
"Please... help me."
The billionaire father slowly turned toward the wall.
For years, he had lived with the pain of losing his son.
Everyone told him the boy was gone.
Everyone told him there was nothing left to find.
But the sound behind the plaster destroyed everything he thought he knew.
The contractor tightened his grip on the heavy steel sledgehammer.
"Someone is trapped in there."
The first strike exploded through the kitchen.
White dust filled the air.
The second strike cracked the perfect surface.
Behind the wall was a narrow hidden space.
A place that was never supposed to exist.
Then a small hand reached through the opening.
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The father stopped breathing.
Because the hand belonged to his son.
