Chapter 3, Six:
Six heard a bizarre noise on her balcony. She’d grown accustomed to strange sounds coming from outside her room, but this was particularly outlandish. It sounded like someone practicing rough s*x… with themselves. Too much grunting for her taste. Not impossible but improbable since she lived on the second floor. Given the creatures she discovered over her lifetime, she hesitated flinging open the glass double doors to investigate, besides it was hotter outside. She would open the doors later to let in the breeze.
In the meantime, she peeked through the cheesecloth sheers to find a man she barely knew fighting his way up her railing. At first, she didn’t recognize him, his face covered in blood. If it had been dark, she might have screamed at the sight of his frame trying
