{"id":26417,"date":"2025-08-25T17:13:47","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T17:13:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=26417"},"modified":"2025-08-25T17:17:38","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T17:17:38","slug":"26417","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=26417","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI\u2019m going to take a shower,\u201d I announced, needing to escape. I leaned against the bathroom door, my heart pounding. What was happening? Why was Catherine looking at me as if I\u2019d committed a heinous crime? I turned on the water, hoping the hot spray could wash away the sticky, pervasive unease. I convinced myself it was all in my head. How wrong I was.<\/p>\n<p>When I stepped out, Catherine was standing in the doorway, her eyes filled with a hatred so sharp and cold it stole my breath. I clutched the towel tighter, feeling utterly exposed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat do you want, Catherine?\u201d My voice trembled.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=26419\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-23467\" src=\"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/340C4489-16D4-4656-9B02-A344BA7D4DAB-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"905\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/340C4489-16D4-4656-9B02-A344BA7D4DAB-1.jpeg 905w, https:\/\/newsx48.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/340C4489-16D4-4656-9B02-A344BA7D4DAB-1-300x75.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/newsx48.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/340C4489-16D4-4656-9B02-A344BA7D4DAB-1-768x191.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 905px) 100vw, 905px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI\u2019m going to take a shower,\u201d I announced, needing to escape. I leaned against the bathroom door, my heart pounding. What was happening? Why was Catherine looking at me as if I\u2019d committed a heinous crime? I turned on the water, hoping the hot spray could wash away the sticky, pervasive unease. I convinced myself&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=26417\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26417"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26417"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26421,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26417\/revisions\/26421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}