{"id":5276,"date":"2026-09-09T01:37:37","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T01:37:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lateststories.info\/?p=3702"},"modified":"2026-09-09T01:37:37","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T01:37:37","slug":"she-thought-liam-was-flirting-then-a-stranger-sent-her-the-photo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.justbytime.info\/?p=5276","title":{"rendered":"She Thought Liam Was Flirting-Then a Stranger Sent Her the Photo"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mila sent a photo to her boyfriend, Liam, from the town’s old open-air market.<\/p>\n

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The photo showed her smiling in front of a massive pile of watermelons, captioned with a playful text:<\/p>\n

“Which watermelon looks the sweetest here?”<\/em><\/p>\n

Liam\u2019s reply came within seconds: “The sweetest one is the one without seeds.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Mila smiled, assuming it was just one of his usual flirty jokes. She picked out a large watermelon, paid the elderly vendor\u2014who hadn’t taken his eyes off her the entire time\u2014and headed back to her apartment.<\/p>\n

When she arrived, Liam wasn’t there. Her calls went straight to voicemail. Sitting in the kitchen, she decided to pass the time by cutting open the watermelon.<\/p>\n

Just as her knife pressed into the thick green rind, her phone buzzed. It was an unknown number.<\/p>\n

“Mila, don’t cut that watermelon. And get out of the apartment right now,”<\/em> the text read.<\/p>\n

Her hands shook as she typed back: “Who is this? Where is Liam?”<\/em><\/p>\n

The reply came instantly, along with a cropped, zoomed-in version of the photo she had sent two hours earlier. The image focused on the background behind her.<\/p>\n

In the reflection of a dirty market window, you could clearly see a man in a black hoodie holding a knife concealed up his sleeve.<\/p>\n

“Liam wasn’t flirting,”<\/em> the unknown number wrote. “He was warning you. ‘Without seeds’ was your emergency code word when you guys were kids, remember? Someone has been stalking you since the market. The man in the hoodie just walked into your building.”<\/em><\/p>\n

At that exact moment, the lights in the apartment went pitch black.<\/p>\n

In the dead silence, Mila heard the slow, agonizing creak of her front door opening.<\/p>\n

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