BOUND BY BLOOD AND BILLIONS
he said proudly, right before asking me to do things I couldn't even repeat to myself.
By the time the club closed, I had eighty-three dollars total. After rent, after food, after everything Violet needed, it still wouldn't be enough. It was never enough.
I walked home through empty streets, my heels clicking on broken pavement. The cold bit through my thin jacket, but I barely felt it. My whole body was numb, like I was walking underwater. Street lights flickered overhead, casting long shadows that looked like monsters reaching for me.
This part of town was where dreams came to die. Broken windows, broken people, broken promises everywhere you looked. But it was all I could afford, even spl
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