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Raspberry Girl - sneak peek

Added 2025-05-29 19:27:28 +0000 UTC

I can't believe we're on part sixteen of Raspberry Girl (and nearly 30k words) anyway, here's a sneak peek of the next part:

His phone rings twice before he manages to pick it up.
It’s buried beneath a stack of file folders, their manilla sleeves full of papers that say practically nothing, just big black strikethroughs all across the pages.
A waste of time.
You’re still at work too, at least you were the last time he checked, the little blue icon on the map showing your location at the bakery.
It’s well past seventeen hundred, and you should already be at home but when these last minute things come in, you have a hard time saying no.
For now.
He has a plan to rectify that.
The phone vibrates once, twice before he pulls it free, glancing at your name across the top of the screen and putting it to his ear. “Hi sweetheart-”
“D-daddy,” it’s jagged, covered by a reedy rasp, shortened breaths puffing into the microphone. The razored edge of his Captain mindset falls away to something else, and he softens his voice, coos at you over the echoing sandpapered gasps.
“Hey baby, what is it?” Cut to the chase. Identify the problem. Keep her calm. The answer to his question is a muffled sob, and someone’s high pitched, panicked voice in the background. His mind runs in a million different directions, paths splitting and multiplying, but they all lead to the same place. Eliminate.
“We were r-robbed, we were… they m-made me open the safe.” Every vein, every blood cell, every single piece of his body turns to ice, and the door to his office nearly comes off its hinges as he barrels through it.