The infamous second client review
Instead, she turned and quietly left the room, closing the door behind her with a soft click.
Raven listened as her footsteps faded down the hallway, leaving him alone in the darkness once more. His thoughts churned in a relentless storm of anger, despair, and exhaustion.
The weight of their expectations bore down on him, suffocating him, and he knew that no matter how hard he tried, he would never be able to live up to them.
As the night deepened, Raven drifted off into a restless sleep, plagued by dreams of the crash, the blood, and the voices that refused to leave him.
Even in his sleep, there was no escape. His life remained a constant nightmare, defined by the crushing shadows of their hungers he could never satisfy.
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