The Luna's Tattoos
She lay motionless, her chest rising slow, her lips parted, knocked out cold—triple the wolfsbane dose, a reckless move by the human I’d hired, his trembling hands overdoing it when he jabbed the syringe into her neck three hours ago.
I’d found him weeks back, slumped over a barstool in a dive outside town, his eyes hollow, his hands clutching a chipped glass of cheap whiskey. The place reeked of stale beer and sweat, the jukebox droning some forgotten tune as I slid onto the seat beside him. He spilled his story quick—debts piling, job gone, a life unraveling—and I saw my chance, a desperate soul ripe for the taking.
Bab Populer