The Alpha's Fated Kiss
I covered rear, rifle barking until the mag ran dry, brass spinning into the dark.
The fragments reached the base as I started up. One grabbed my ankle: cold, wet, strong. Its fingers sank into my flesh like ice picks. I kicked free, boot connecting with something that felt like jelly and smoke. It dissolved, but another took its place, then another, climbing the ladder after me, faces cycling through everyone I’d ever lost.
Higher.
The city was a black void below, broken only by the red glow of emergency lights in distant boroughs. The fragments swarmed the pier, a tide of faces, a nightmare made flesh.
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