CHAPTER SIX : Chasing the Ghost With Crimson Eyes
Daniel couldn’t stop thinking about her.
The woman from the café.
Her eyes were wrong—too ancient, too knowing.24Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyQ4ul5yskm
Her voice carried weight, like it had echoed across lifetimes.24Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqnBbKC0RbS
And her presence? It left fingerprints on his soul.
He’d tried to shake it off.24Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTRDZtEH35J
Tried to drown her in work, routine, noise.
But every time he closed his eyes, she was there.
Not just her face—her essence.
The soft rustle of wings.24Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1AiK4lwS0l
The scent of fire and night.24Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCeApo9ecxT
The way his chest clenched like a warning and a wish at the same time.
So he searched.
Back at the café. Then the street. Then the alley behind it.
Everywhere he’d seen her.24Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsl1Sb4AdHK
Nowhere she remained.
People thought he was losing it.24Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSSHLM3kuko
Maybe he was.
But obsession has its own language, its own logic.
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He was fluent now.
Meanwhile, high above the city, Lilith watched.24Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡujwUiMBUux
Invisible. Untouchable. Aching.
She told herself it was kindness.24Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNlCCeaz0K2
That distance was mercy.
But watching him look for her…
Watching him need her like a man slowly starving…
It shattered every wall she’d built since the fall.
Because what’s the point of survival…24Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqWx74ia1Hs
If the soul you once lived for forgets how to feel you?
So she broke her rule again.
Rain poured as Daniel stepped out of the bookstore.24Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVue4FAD2rm
Defeated. Drenched.
Then he saw her.
Across the street, under a flickering lamppost.
Soaked. Bare. Beautiful.
Their eyes locked.
And without a word, she walked toward him.
Slow. Bold. Reckless.
He didn’t speak.24Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ34P6G59Lst
He didn’t dare.
Until she was inches away—close enough to drown in her breath.
“Why me?” he asked, trembling.
Her answer?
“Because every version of you still owns me.”
And then…
She kissed him.
In the middle of the storm.24Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtkJTvokmFS
In front of the world.24Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZKO4Hl8MNs
In defiance of fate.
And in that moment—he knew:
He was already falling.
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