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Trapped in Between
Date de publication:
2026-07-10 00:22:05
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Blood and Mercy The First Step
CassieI’m still standing on the lawn when Mara finally picks up on the second ring, and the second she hears my voice, she starts yelling.“Stop calling me, Cassie. Just stop. We don’t need you checking in every five minutes like you’re some kind of warden keeping tabs on us.”“Mara, I just wanted to—”“I don’t care what you wanted. We’re fine. Jonah’s fine. Everything’s fine without you here, so maybe just leave us alone for once.”“Please, can we just talk about—” The line goes dead before I can finish.I pull the phone away from my ear and stare at the screen for a second, then try Miles again even though I already know he’s not going to answer.Straight to voicemail.I lower the phone and stand there on the lawn with the evening settling in around me, the sky going purple and gray at the edges, and I don’t know what else to do.My throat feels raw, scratchy from crying earlier, and I need water before I can go upstairs and lock myself in my room and pretend today didn’t happen.I
Blood and Mercy Everyone needs someone Mr Kai
KaiI spend most of the afternoon in my studio, but not in front of the easel this time because I’m tired of staring at blank canvases that mock me with their emptiness.Instead I’m going through old sketchbooks, the ones I filled before the accident when drawing was still easy and my hands knew what to do without me having to think about it.There are dozens of them stacked on the shelves, years of work, and I pull one down at random and flip it open.Architectural sketches. Building facades. Interior spaces. All the things I used to design when the company was new and I was working on every project myself instead of just overseeing from a distance.My hands were confident in these drawings. The lines are clean and sure, no hesitation, just pure intention translated onto paper.I don’t know how to do that anymore. A knock on my studio door pulls me out of the sketchbook.“Mr Kai?” Mrs. Rosalind’s voice, practical and no-nonsense as always.“What is it?”“I’m changing your linens toda
Blood and Mercy His silence
KaiLast night keeps playing in my head on a loop no matter how hard I try to push it away.I heard her fall, or almost fall, I guess, because there was that crash and then silence and I knew she’d caught herself on the railing before she went all the way down. I was sitting at my piano and the sound echoed through the whole house, loud enough that there was no way to pretend I didn’t hear it.I’d wheeled halfway to my door before I stopped myself. My hand was on the handle, ready to fully open it and go check if she was okay, if she needed help, if anything was broken.But I didn’t open it.I sat there with my hand on that handle for what felt like forever, listening to her gather her things at the bottom of the stairs, listening to her limp down the hallway to her room, and I didn’t move.Because if I’d opened that door, if I’d gone out there and checked on her, that would have meant I cared.And I can’t care.Caring is what got me here in the first place, caring is what tore every
Blood and Mercy Trapped in Between
CassieIt doesn’t turn. I try again, pressing down harder, but the metal stays fixed in place.He locked his door from the inside, something he’s never done before in all the days I’ve been here.“Mr Petrova?” I keep my voice low in case he’s still sleeping even though I doubt he is. “I have your breakfast.”Nothing comes back.“Your medications are out here. You need to take them with food.”Still nothing, just that same heavy silence that seems to fill every corner of this house.I try the handle one more time even though I already know it won’t work, the cold metal unyielding under my palm no matter how hard I twist.He’s in there, I know he’s in there, and he’s locked me out completely like I’m some kind of threat he needs protection from.I stand in the hallway for another long moment, holding a tray of food that’s getting colder by the second and staring at a door that’s not going to open no matter how long I wait.Finally I bend down carefully, minding my knee, and set the tray
Blood and Mercy The Fall
CassieI’m still standing in the hallway outside his studio with tears drying cold on my face when his words finally sink in.I don’t want an audience.I need to leave before he says something else that makes this worse, before I embarrass myself more than I already have by crying outside his door like some kind of pathetic stranger who thinks she matters.I take a step back, then another, keeping one hand on the wall to steady myself because my vision is still blurred from crying and everything looks slightly wrong in the dim light. The hallway stretches out behind me, too long and too empty, and I focus on putting one foot in front of the other until I reach the top of the stairs.The house is so quiet now that the music has stopped. Every sound I make feels amplified, my footsteps echoing off the marble floors below, my breathing uneven and catching in ways I can’t seem to control no matter how hard I try.I start down the stairs, one hand gripping the railing, moving carefully b
Blood and Mercy Music
The silence stretches. I assume that's my answer, until he speaks, so quietly I barely catch it. “I remember some things.”“What kind of things?”“Mom crying a lot. And Mara being angry all the time. And Miles…” He trails off, his finger tracing one of the dark lines on the page. “Miles left and didn’t come back for a really long time.”My chest feels too tight but I force myself to keep breathing normally, keep my voice steady.“That sounds really hard,” I say quietly. “You were pretty young when all that happened.”He nods, still not looking at me. I reach across and gently touch the edge of the sketchbook, not closing it, just letting him know I’m here.“Sometimes when scary things happen, our brains hold onto them,” I tell him. “Even when we don’t want them to. And sometimes drawing them out can help us understand them better.”“Does it make them go away?”“Not always. But it can make them feel smaller. Less scary.”He looks up at me finally, his eyes big and serious. “I don’t re
Blood and Mercy Monday, Four Days From Now
CassieKatrina goes still. Like she wasn’t expecting me to say yes so fast.Then she reaches into her bag. Pulls out a pen and slides it across the table.It’s heavy when I pick it up. The kind of pen that feels important just holding it.I flip to the last page.There’s a line at the bottom with t
Blood and Mercy The Contract
CassieI’ve never been to a café like this before.White marble tables. Gold accents on everything. The kind of place where the lighting is soft enough to make everyone look expensive. There’s a glass case near the counter filled with pastries that probably cost more than my grocery budget for a we
Blood and Mercy They won’t Know
CassieI don’t know how long I sit there. Could be twenty minutes. Could be an hour. Time feels strange right now, like it’s moving too fast and too slow at the same time.Eventually I get up. My legs are stiff and my back aches from sitting on the hard floor, but I make it to the break room and po
Blood and Mercy The Test Result
CassieThe break room smells like burnt coffee and something else I can’t quite place. Maybe it’s the trash nobody’s taken out in three days, or maybe it’s just the weight of too many double shifts soaking into the walls. I don’t know anymore.It’s three in the morning. The fluorescent lights overh
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