The night was a cold, unforgiving void, mirroring the emptiness that Ava felt gnawing at her insides. The stranger's words lingered in her mind, heavy and ominous like a storm on the horizon. There was no escape from the truth he had revealed—a truth that held the power to shatter everything she had believed in. She was torn between fear and fury, between the desire to flee and the need to confront the one she had once trusted with her life.
As the wind whipped through the desolate cliffside where she stood, Ava's thoughts spiraled back to the moments she had shared with him—the betrayer. Each memory was like a jagged piece of glass, cutting into her as she tried to piece together the puzzle of his betrayal. How had she missed the signs? The subtle glances, the too-perfect lies, the way he had always seemed to know more than he should? She had been blind, and now she was paying the price.
