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Chapter Six

Author: Divine
last update Last Updated: 2025-07-29 13:26:54

Melissa

It started raining around midnight.

I was in bed, the type of restless that kept sleep at bay. Outside, the thunder rumbled low like a warning and i followed the raindrops racing one another down the glass. Every crack of lightning illuminated my bedroom in harsh relief. Shadows stretched and drew back. The whole estate seemed to shift in its silence.

And i couldn't shake Jamal from my mind.

It had been days since club night. Days since i heard about Alex. Days since Jamal last touched me like something precious and forbidden at the same time.

And now he was gone. Not missing gone. his radio was silence. No calls. No texts. Just that nagging pain in my chest.

I should have been grateful. Grateful the insanity was over, that i could return to something resembling normal but i was freezing hollow like I'd been stripped naked and left in the tempest.

The door creaked and my breath stopped.

"Chrissie?" I whispered but it wasn't Chrissie.

A figure stood just beyond the doorway, it
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