Unfinished Business

Previously

…Taji looked from the token in Miller’s hand to the terrified woman beside him, and then back to the detective. The inferno within him raged, a desperate, primal scream trapped behind his teeth. He was exposed. The carefully constructed walls of his dual life had crumbled, revealing the monstrous edifice that lay beneath. The dance with his demons had reached its crescendo, and the music had stopped. Now, only the silence remained, heavy with the unspoken question: would he be consumed, or would he rise from the ashes, a creature reborn, forever changed? The choice, for the first time, felt terrifyingly his own.