Returning the Favor

Clara

The quiet drive to Madeline and Callum’s house offered a temporary reprieve, but the moment I collapsed onto the mattress of their guest room, exhaustion betrayed me. Sleep did not bring the peaceful oblivion I desperately craved. Instead, it dragged me kicking and screaming into a vivid, horrifying playback of the night before. Fragmented, intoxicating memories surged through my mind like