THE MASKED CLIENT The club was loud as always, the kind of place where perfume mixed with smoke and sweat, where the lights never stayed still long enough to let you breathe. She was back to the life yet she didn't feel like she fit in just right. "Make me proud little bird."Raven kept her head down as she walked past the crowd, her body moving on autopilot, slipping into the routine that had once come so easy but it felt heavier, her thoughts were stuck on the school being cleared, on Kai’s stare when she left, on Ryan silently tailing her steps until she shut the door of her apartment behind her. She hadn’t asked for him to drop her off, but she hadn’t declined either, she was learning to accommodate them in her world and this...It didn't quite fit in to the new reality she walked in."I've missed you baby," a man commented and she pulled away, the same comments that had thrilled her before now irritated her.Ryan was there, standing in the shadows against the far wall, half
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