C85 The guilty ones

Date = 1 August

Place = San Francisco (UCSF Medical Center)

POV - Aria

The sound comes before the sight of him.

Footsteps.

Hard. Measured. Angry enough to make the linoleum vibrate.

Marco’s pacing rhythm shifts — slower, heavier, then stops — and every instinct in me goes cold.

Jackson bursts in, and the entire atmosphere changes like someone just cracked a storm cloud over our heads