Bound By Blood
Within moments, the hallway was cleared, the bodies gone, the blood smeared away as if it had never been there.
When he returned, he shut the doors softly behind him. Not a drop of blood marked his suit. His expression hadn’t changed still calm, steady, controlled.
But his eyes….they were colder now. Deadlier.
I realized then: the rumors weren’t exaggerations. They weren’t stories told to frighten people. They were truth, barely concealed beneath this polite facade.
He looked at me, at my trembling hands clutching the armrest. “You see, Signorina,” he said quietly, “this is the world you’ve been brought into. There is no room for weakness here.”