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A GLIMMER OF HOPE

Author: ABY
last update Last Updated: 2025-10-31 21:52:50

Xander’s POV

The whiskey burns on the way down.

It’s not the first glass tonight. Or the second. Probably not even the third. The bartender stopped counting an hour ago, now he just refills when I lift my hand.

The bar’s half-empty, a graveyard of neon lights and forgotten laughter. Music hums low from a corner speaker, some old song about love that didn’t survive the night.

Fitting.

I swirl the glass, watching the ice melt. My reflection stares back, hollow eyes, bruised pride, and the kind of exhaustion that no amount of sleep fixes. The kind that starts in your chest and eats its way out.

“Another?” the bartender asks quietly.

I nod. He pours without a word.

When you’ve been publicly humiliated, betrayed by your own silence, and turned into the headline of every sports site in North America, the world stops looking you in the eye.

Everyone knows. Everyone saw.

The forbidden affair. The mother. The betrayal.

I down another swallow, my throat raw. The liquid does nothing to blur the
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