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Previously

…She paused at the threshold, her back to me. “Morales? What about him?” “He’s not playing by any rules,” I said, a grim certainty in my voice. “And when the rules break, that’s when things get truly ugly.” She didn’t reply, just melted into the shadows, leaving me alone in the echoing silence. The air felt lighter, but the weight in my chest remained, a constant, heavy presence. I had revealed a sliver of the truth, a glimpse into the darkness that consumed me. And in doing so, I had only deepened the shadows. The confrontation was over, but the real battle, the one within myself, raged on. And I knew, with chilling certainty, that the next move, for both of us, would be a deadly one.