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Chapter 5 - 5. The Run

★ FL's POV ★

I turned to him, bleeding but not dead. With the remaining strength I had, I drove the knife one final time into his chest.

The light in his eyes flickered and died, as he breathed his final, choked breath.

With a satisfied smile on my face, I

reached for the table, climbed onto it, reaching for the vent in the middle of the room, lacing my blood all over it.

I then moved to the bed and bolted through the opened window, trying hard to contain my blood from trailing along with me, clenching to the mattress I had snatched.

With each inhale my chest burned like a shard of glass slicing through me.

"I have to get out of here. I can't get caught!"

But how was I supposed to manage that, when I couldn't even run properly with this busted left hand, snapped like a chicken wing and dangling uselessly at my side?

Even pressing my side, where that fucker stabbed me, was a luxury.

I cut into an alley from the main street. Dogs and gunshots echoed behind me.

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