Five Men for the Doomed Villainess
I stepped closer to the heavy steel gate set into the wall, peering through the reinforced viewing port.
Standing in the harsh glare of the floodlights were three people. A man in his late twenties, a woman clutching a thin jacket around her shoulders, and a little girl no older than six, crying into her mother’s leg. They looked terrified, freezing, and completely exhausted. The man had a bloody gash on his forehead, and his hands were raised in surrender.
"We just want to get away from the city," the man yelled, his voice cracking. "The hospitals are burning. The police are shooting people in the streets. We saw the lights up here. Please, we just need a place to sleep."