A Secretary Affair
There was no way I would let them take him without a fight.
3:17 AM. The numbers on the digital clock glowed faint green, and then suddenly, the lights in the room flickered once, twice, then died completely, leaving us in nothing but dim shadows lit only by the pale moonlight coming through the window.
The hum of the refrigerator and the aircon that I didn’t even notice was there until it stopped faded into silence, and all the small, constant background noises of living things just cut off all at once.
And that quiet after everything went off… god, it was worse than any noise I had ever heard. It felt like the kind of silence that swallows everything, that makes your own breathing sound to