Beneath His Cold Vows
Someone is jogging beside me, their footsteps uneven with urgency.
Another wave of pain tore through me, hot and tearing, radiating upwards like fire inside my ribs.
My fingers clawed for something, fabric, air, God, anything. I caught hold of a coat sleeve. My hand slipped off again, weak and shaking.
“I can’t,” I tried to say, but it came out as a whisper scraped down to nothing.
“You’re okay,” someone lied. “We’ve got you.”
A rush of cold hit my legs as a door was pushed open.
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