As Benny’s senses started to fade, he mustered his last bit of strength to try and get up.

“Sir, are you alright?” A soft female voice broke through the haze, followed by gentle hands lifting him.

Seeing the woman before him, Benny offered a rare, heartfelt smile.

“Evelyn…”

Benny spent a restless night, his dreams replaying memories with Evelyn.

Yet, happiness was as brief as a shooting star, transforming into a nightmare where Evelyn lay bloodied in his arms.

Waking groggily, his head throbbed intensely.

The light fixture above flickered erratically, leaving his mind in a brief state of emptiness.

to coalesce, piecing together the previous night’s

departure from Prosperity Group, he had drowned his sorrows in a bar and thought he saw Evelyn in his drunken

sat up, realizing something was

to find his

as he looked around, recognizing

prosthetic leg was positioned

and

intoxicated that he lost complete

bed, a noise from the bathroom

door opened, revealing a

awake, Flossie paused briefly,

I thought

workload she’d been under

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