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I'm Here, James. I Know What You Need

Author: Serendipity
last update Last Updated: 2024-11-30 22:56:04

James

By now, I wasn’t quite sure how many glasses of the drink I had consumed. The world continued to rotate, only a whirl of darkness and glowing sources. It was a tumultuous hurricane inside me and no one can even predict when a storm will hit. Katniss… the marriage… or rather the destruction it brought with it. There was no escape. Nowhere to turn. I was a sinking ship and no one was coming to my rescue.

“James?” The voice that came was as soft as the fog.

I slowly moved my head around and my vision was becoming wavy and dim.

She was dressed in a black dress that fitted her perfectly, and she stood still. Her hair was long and free falling in loose ringlets and they highlighted by the soft warm lighting of the bar. But it was not her looks that made me uncomfortable, it was the smell. It is the unmistakable, familiar, yet infuriating nice smell.

Katniss.

“Katniss?” The name blurted out of my mouth before I could even think to stop it. My voice cracked, uncertain.

The woman smiled,
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