TRADING MY CHEATING HUSBAND FOR THE LYCAN KING
I light the fuel with my other hand.
The flames catch fast and climb through the hardware, licking around the laptop’s edges, finding the drive, consuming the server.
The plastic casing warps and bubbles.
Internal components glow orange, slowly deforming in the flames. The laptop screen cracks from the intense heat, the glass falling inward.
Above it all, the smoke climbing into the Alaskan sky carries sixty-three names, ten years of lies, and eight years of bruises into the dark where nobody will ever retrieve them.
We watch it burn. Her hand in mine. The fire reflecting in her eyes.