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.

“Did you order something online? This package came for you. I

and shook her head.

Shelly,” she read aloud, her brow

thinking much of it, she casually opened the

screamed and dropped it as if

lay face-up on the floor—splattered in what looked

“Shelly, even

calm her. “It’s probably a prank. Maybe some crazy

expression had gone cold. Her voice dropped

laugh. “Another one of Heidi’s

newest chapters

this time,

of it worked. So Heidi changed tactics. She began pretending to

day, she found

wrapped up a grueling photoshoot. She stormed out of the studio alone, her mood foul. The photographer, though famous,