THE HIDDEN RIVAL
Every car horn outside, every knock on a neighbor’s door — it all sounded like death dressed up as normal life.
Thomas caught me pacing the motel room, blade in hand. “You can’t keep this up,” he said quietly.
I stopped, met his eyes. “The second I stop, Thomas, we’re already dead.”
He didn’t argue. He just sat there, silent, letting me burn holes into the carpet with my boots.
The first courier showed three nights later.
We’d staked out a dive bar in Brooklyn, neon flickering over peeling paint. Thomas nursed a beer at the bar while I sat in the corner, hood up, cigarette smoke curling around me.
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