Edward I haven’t slept in two nights. Not properly, anyway. Every time I close my eyes, I see that old, strange man’s head snapping back, that wet spray painting the air, his body collapsing like someone cut the strings off a puppet. It’s been playing on a loop in my skull—over and over—like a broken recorder stuck on the same gruesome note.It’s not just the shock. It’s the knowledge that whoever killed him… they didn’t miss. They didn’t even hesitate. One second we were talking, the next—boom—everything was over. These people… they don’t care where you hide. You could sink to the bottom of the ocean, and among the billion creatures in there, they'll find you and fish you out, smiling the whole way.That’s why I doubled my security before sunrise the next morning.By afternoon, I’d tripled it.Myles kept insisting I was being “extra,” but the man doesn’t understand. I know predators when I see them, and these weren’t just predators—they were predators with a clipboard and a hit list
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