Darkness tasted sharp and metallic.It clung to Celeste’s tongue, bitter as old coins, and stuck in her throat as she clawed her way out of the void—past the memory of blood soaking her shirt, hot and sticky and impossible to scrub away, past the look on her fiancé’s face as he shoved the knife in, sharp with triumph and disgust, past the shrieking of the pregnant bitch he’d cheated with, her voice raw and jagged, screaming that Celeste had it coming, that this was justice.Then—just like that—the world snapped back.She sucked in air like she’d been struck by lightning, every nerve sparking awake. Her chest heaved, lungs desperate. The taste of death lingered, metallic and cold, but was fading, replaced by something electric, alive.Celeste shot upright, gasping. Not on the warehouse floor where she’d bled out alone, abandoned, but in a bed—a bed so massive it seemed to swallow her whole. Velvet, lush, sheets soft as a whisper, draped in silk, smelling faintly of moon lilies and old
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