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A Dagger through Dimensions — Chapter 12

Bleeding Through the Eyes

Morbid Ink
7 min readMar 24, 2024

As we walked along the sidewalk after leaving the theater, I remained in a bit of a trance. In fact, I don’t remember much of the movie. I kept coming back to the fact that Adele could not recognize her own reflection in the pictures we looked over. Sure, people can look like a doppelgänger, but you can’t look at yourself in a picture and not recognize that it’s you. Well, that’s what I told myself.

What if I’m wrong? Maybe she’s not that actress. That might be why the man I thought was Boris Karloff looked at me so strangely.

“You’re quiet. Is something wrong?” Adele’s voice brought me out of my thoughts.

“No, I was just thinking about how fun the last few days have been.”

It was an honest statement. Now, I don’t think I’m in love. Hell, I can’t even fathom what that means. But I’m enjoying our time together.

Like she read my mind, Adele wrapped her fingers with mine as she took my hand.

“I’ve been thinking that our time together these last few days means more to me than anything else we’ve done since we got married.”

“It’s been a while, hasn’t it?” I suddenly realized that I didn’t know when Lane and Adele got married. In my head, I cursed Lane for not…

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