Chaotic Obsession
Two had turned into a game of trying to out-run his own
thoughts, each sip a desperate attempt to quiet the memories that haunted him, the images that "ickered behind his eyelids like a broken !lm reel. By thetime the clock above the bar blinked past midnight, he
was plastered—the room tilting on its axis, his head buzzing like a hive of angry bees, his pulse a frantic drum against his ears.
Everything blurred, the faces around him fading into a hazy background, their voices a dull roar that he couldn't quite decipher. Except her.Alli behind thebar, a beacon in the smoky haze, her presence a constant, unwavering pull.
Alli's laughter, head thrown back, throat long and elegant in that moment,
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