The door didn’t just close; it detonated. The slam was a seismic crack that split the fragile silence, snapping me back into the grim reality of the room like a jolt from a live wire. My breath hitched, a useless gasp caught in my throat. Before the sound could even finish echoing, the garish neon light bled over a new silhouette in the doorway.Cassandre.She didn’t enter; she claimed. An amused, toxic whirlwind spinning back into the eye of her own storm. Her previous exit had been rage; this return was pure, chilling theater. She stalked forward, each step a deliberate, punishing cadence on the stained concrete. Her body was a blade, her gaze a scalpel, dissecting the room and finding me, always me, as the only specimen worth her attention.I opened my mouth , to beg, to deny, to scream , but no sound emerged. She was already there, a hurricane contained in human form, the scent of cold night air and something sharper, like ozone or malice, clinging to her. She invaded my space unt
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