I Was Hired To Seduce My Boss
Marcus
The darkness is a blanket, heavy and warm. I float in it, weightless, untethered. The pain is distant, muffled, like a memory that belongs to someone else. I drift, and I let myself drift, because drifting is easier than waking. Waking means remembering. Remembering means the pain becomes real again. But the darkness is not empty.
Faces swim through it. Liam as a boy, chasing fireflies by the lake. His father, David, laughed at something I said. Eleanor, her eyes grey and sharp, handing me a letter with trembling fingers.