The Night embrace
he notified me before leaving me.
The alley was left silent, the loan sharks were long gone, but tension still hung in the air... An unspoken danger could lurk in any corner. If he hadn't saved me, the unthinkable would have happened.
"Thanks." I was grateful to the bodyguard who had escorted me back. "Please tell your boss I'm deeply grateful." I entered home; my mom and sister were already fast asleep.
I snuggled in between, to get a good rest, but I couldn't; nightmares of what-ifs and the trauma stung me hard, waking me up, so I decided to surf online, applying for any job I could find.