Trigger Warning:
This chapter contains depictions of drugging, verbal abuse, Use of strong language, manipulation, and s****l violence, including suggestive grooming and implied trafficking. Reader discretion is strongly advised.
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Zee.
My head throbbed like someone was hitting it with a hammer from the inside. My eyes fluttered open to a dim room washed in warm, artificial light.
The ceiling was unfamiliar, smooth, and too perfect—no cracks, no character. The bed beneath me was soft, too soft, like it wanted me to sink in and disappear.
I sat up slowly, the world shifting as though the floor wasn’t quite level. My limbs were heavy, my mouth dry.
I blinked, trying to clear the blur from my eyes, and that’s when I saw them—two figures standing in the corner, whispering.
It too
