The Orchid's Dying Breath

"Relationships, marriage, it's all a g

sing his wife, Chloe, and believing

utting through the bar's noise l

sh, unnatural sound, certa

rowing a tantrum, he' d even m

orite meal, and replaced her drooping o

the silence deafening, a

oor, their faces etched with a grief so pr

"Dead because of you! You killed her spir

ed, his mi

? Why couldn'

ok at him with such

ething so monstrous that hi

s eyes, a terrifying void in his mem

inally fell from his numb finger

during a storm, prioritizing a deal over her safety, her

diagnosis came

ry, but warned it could

e rasped, refusing the

reminder of the woman he destroyed, now