Blood match
Instead, he clenched his jaw, a silent testament to his stubbornness.
I leaned my weight into it, twisting gently to break the suction of the clotted blood. There was a terrible, wet pop—the sound echoing in the silence like a gunshot. As I tugged, the screech of metal pulling free from bone pierced the air, sharp and unforgiving. The nail finally came loose, dripping with dark, congealed blood, and I dropped it into a metal basin with a sharp clang.
Don exhaled sharply, eyes fluttering closed for a moment before opening again. A groan escaped his lips, low and guttural. Then, unexpectedly, I heard a strange, raspy laugh from him, a crack in the otherwise tense atmosphere.
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