By Chance, By Fate
Starlit Ink
62
Alex
I couldn’t sleep again that night. I tried—God knows I tried—but every time I closed my eyes, I saw him. Liam, bleeding out in that alley, his lifeless eyes staring into mine. The nightmare had shaken me to my core, leaving me drenched in sweat, my heart hammering in my chest.
The room was dark and still, but my mind raced with fragments of the message, the nightmare, and the growing sense that something was horribly wrong.
"I’ll strike again, and next time, nobody will help you."