CONTENT WARNING: This chapter contains depictions of s****l assault, drug abuse, and emotional manipulation that may be triggering for some readers.
DARKNESS DESCENDS
~CHELSEA POV~
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The pills make everything swim. Colors bleed together like watercolors in the rain.
I try to push the door closed, but my limbs move like I'm underwater. Clumsy. Slow. A designer shoe wedges in the gap, blocking my escape.
My eyes travel from the polished leather to the face I've tried to forget. Kolt Kingston stands in my doorway like death wearing a thousand-dollar suit.
"Found you," he says.
The door slams open. I scramble backward across the grimy linoleum, my palms burning against the rough surface.
Two Kolts hover above me. The pills spl
