TRISTAN'S POVThe first touch of dawn filtering through my window was no longer a promise of a new day, but a grim herald of its predecessor's memory. It had been weeks, perhaps months, since that initial night, and life had settled into a rhythm so twisted, so utterly depraved, it had become… normal.Every evening, a predictable symphony began in the room next door – Giovanni’s room, where his fiancée, Juliana, slept. I’d lie awake, rigid, listening to the creaking of the bed, the muffled groans that filtered through the thick walls. Juliana’s cries, sometimes sharp, sometimes drawn out, were a prelude to my own torment. It usually lasted an hour, sometimes more, sometimes less. I could practically chart the trajectory of their passion from the sounds alone.Then, silence would fall, heavy and suffocating. I’d hold my breath, waiting. And, inevitably, just as the moon reached its zenith, a soft click of my door, a shadow slipping in. Giovanni.He was a predator, a phantom in the dark
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