Chapter 10: Edge of the Abyss
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When evening came, the pharmacy’s glass door burst open with a violent rush, making a terrifying sound echo throughout the place. Houssam entered, his red eyes burning with a psychological madness and pure terror that had exploded behind the crowds. He was holding his phone with violently trembling hands, and his features were as pale as the ghosts that stalked him in the darkness of the night.
He approached my glass counter, leaning his hands upon it heavily, and looked at me with a faltering, faint tone overflowing with supplication and a deadly psychological fracture:
- "Kinda!.. Please, help me.. I am collapsing! The messages are chasing me every second, and today they mentioned the Beirut port shipment and the computer files exactly cash cash! There is someone who possesses all my secrets and controls my breath.. It's Raghad, I swear to you that she is watching me from behind the mirrors and writing my end with her towering pen!"
I looked at him with my full cautious coldness and emotional stability, pretending to be shocked and overflowing with feigned innocent concern. I held his cold hand with a fake tenderness:
- "Houssam, my love, please calm down.. you are drowning in fatigue and visual hallucination due to the lack of sleep and the pressure of your company's chemical material deals. Go home and rest, and do not let these dark illusions destroy our towering life."
He shook his head in terrifying despair, turning to leave with faltering steps like a man defeated in his final battle, without possessing a single option for confrontation. As soon as he immediately departed, I took out my secret phone with cold steadiness, a sharp smile of victory appearing on my face. I had tightened the threads of darkness around his neck completely; Houssam was now drowning in a swamp of psychological terror, and the game had become operating under my terms, my rules, and my pen alone. I would make him hand over all his dark accounts without him daring to hold a single meeting or request to confront me with the facts behind the crowds!
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