Tag: after last night’s high. My body is rested. My mind isn’t. It keeps replaying fragments of the job like a scratched record—the encrypted files

Chapter Three – Karmia Sunlight slants through the blinds, cutting pale bars across my sheets. I blink up at the ceiling, disoriented for a heartbeat before the clock on my nightstand comes into focus. Late. The city outside is already alive, horns and engines, faint voices drifting up from the street. For a moment it