Requiem of a Broken Heart

Chapter 1142:

She lay in bed staring at the ceiling, wide awake and tense. Sleep was impossible. After tossing and turning for an hour, she grabbed her phone and blocked Heidi’s number.

That should have been the end of it. But it wasn’t.

The next night, at exactly midnight, a different number rang her phone. Then another the night after that. Always at midnight. Always Heidi.

Shelly was unraveling. She considered turning her phone off before bed, but what if her manager needed to reach her?

In the end, she handed her phone to her assistant every night before sleeping, finally getting some rest—barely.

At work, she tried to laugh it off while venting to her manager.

“Honestly, Lucy, I don’t know what I’d do without you,” Shelly said, flashing a tired smile.

“It’s nothing,” Lucy replied casually, unfazed as always.

by the way,” she added, holding out a small box. “Did you order something online? This package came for you. I signed for

frowned and shook her head. “Nope. Didn’t

my dearest Shelly,” she read aloud,

the box and pulled out a folded piece

she screamed and

on the floor—splattered in what looked like

“Shelly, even in death, I won’t let

picked it up, trying to calm her. “It’s probably a prank. Maybe some

had gone cold. Her voice dropped low. “No. I know exactly

laugh. “Another one of Heidi’s

newest chapters

this time,

letters—none of it worked. So Heidi changed tactics. She began pretending to be one of Shelly’s

she

just wrapped up a grueling photoshoot. She stormed out of the studio