Alpha Nox
Night after night I begged the Moon Goddess to take me instead, but she never answered.
“The guard went missing the same day Riley was murdered. He’s the only one who could’ve done it, yet according to his family he was just an ordinary Joe who had plans on retiring next year. Add that to the fact that his body was weeks into decomposition, and it makes no fucking sense!” Jada snarled, throwing her hands in the air. This was only the beginning of her daily tirade. No judgement from my end, though. We were all doing what we could to cope.
I flipped my mother’s blade around in my hand, the one she’d given to Lilac when we were kids. “Unless a rotting corpse is capable of murder, it’s not going