She was jolted awake by the incessant ringing of her Samsung phone. In her state of sleep deprivation, she had the urge to fling the phone at the wall. But she knew that she would be the one to bear the burden of that later. Instead she ended the call and slipped back to sleep.

But just as the sleep was getting more enjoyable, the phone rang again. She looked at the phone and saw that the caller had hidden his or her number. She had serious misgivings about people who hid their numbers to call people; in her opinion, if you didn't have any ulterior motive, why don't you show who you are? And the recent case of the woman who picked up and unknown number and later jumped to her death made her to be extra wary of private numbers.

She was about end the call and switch off her phone when her finger touched the fingerprint sensor at the back of the phone and the call connected. She sighed and placed the phone to her ear.

"Hello," she said, yawning and hoping that she would not find it hard getting back to sleep.

"What is the eight commandment, Julie?" the caller, a man with a gruff voice asked. She had the distinct feeling that he had been drinking.

"Who's this please?"

"You have your Bible, right? Find out what the eight commandment is. I'll call you soon to know if you have checked it. Bye," the man instructed and disconnected the call.

Julie was mortified. She sat up, swung her legs down to the floor and wondered who could have called her to tell her such a thing. She got up and her eyes met the framed photograph of her wedding day. She remembered her husband and shook her head in sorrow. Today was exactly fifteen years since he died.

At that thought, she suddenly became still. Her blood turned to ice as something flashed in her mind. It can't be, she told herself over and over again. Yet...

She quickly switched on the light of the bedside lamp, fetched her Bible and with shaky hands flipped to the Book of Exodus. Her eyes roamed the pages, scanning the words faster than they appeared and silently hoping that she was wrong. But she knew...

Then she saw what she was looking for, what the man had instructed her to search for.

"Exodus, Chapter 20 verse 16," she read, " 'do not accuse anyone falsely'."

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