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.

coalesce, piecing together the previous night’s

sorrows in a bar and thought he saw Evelyn in

up,

covers to find his trouser leg empty

he looked

leg was positioned at the bed’s

of anger and fear washed

lost

of bed, a noise from the bathroom drew

door opened,

awake, Flossie paused

awake? I thought

she’d been under had been

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