The Devil's Debt
Her hair grew messy, her movements sharper, edged with tension she couldn’t release.
Sleep offered no relief. It came in fragments, snatched in shallow bursts. Dreams plagued her—fleeting, fractured images she never remembered clearly. Only the feelings lingered: the press of fear, the sting of betrayal, the burn of longing. Each time she woke, her throat was tight, her chest aching as though she had been screaming.
And always, her thoughts circled back to him.
The look in his eyes the last time they stood together—stormy, fractured, raw in a way that almost felt human. The silence he had chosen instead of answers. The way guilt had flickered across his face before he turned away.
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