The echo of Brandy Martinez’s desperate promises still hung in the heavy afternoon air long after her voice had given out.
Her mind didn’t process the departure. It replayed everything instead.
His eyes.
His voice.
The way he looked at her like she was nothing. And yet, beneath the crushing humiliation, something else lingered.
A dark, stubborn obsession she couldn’t name, tightening its grip on her chest as she stared blankly down the empty street.
HOOOOONK!
A loud, aggressive horn shocked her back to reality.
A sleek, black sedan surged past her onto the driveway, the sudden, violent gust of wind from its passing almost knocking her off balance.
Brandy stumbled back a step, her eyes flashing with instant rage. The windows of the sedan were tinted so heavily that she couldn't cat
