Jenifer I knew the moment he came into the room that something was wrong.Not wrong in the simple sense, because nothing about this place had felt right for a very long time. Nothing about the chains above my head, the rough concrete beneath my bare feet, the stale air heavy with old sex, sweat, and something unmistakably animal had allowed for anything as clean as normal. But this was different. Sharper. Immediate. It reached me before my eyes adjusted, before the door had even finished shutting behind him. A smell, thick and metallic, forcing its way through everything else.Blood.Fresh enough that it still carried heat in it.My stomach tightened, and for a moment I stopped breathing. There was some stupid instinct in me that wondered whether it was his, whether he had come back wounded, whether the violence that seemed to pulse so naturally through this world had finally turned and bitten one of its own. But when he stepped further into the light, I saw the truth. The dark strea
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