The man’s knees buckled. Blood poured between his fingers as he clutched the wound that should have been hers.
She didn’t lower the gun.
Thunder rolled through the empty warehouse, shaking rusted beams. Rain poured harder, turning the concrete floor into a mirror of broken light.
For months she had suspected something. The late nights. The new cologne. The way he sometimes whispered another name in his sleep.
But she never imagined this.
She had followed him here tonight, heart pounding, ready to catch him with the other woman. Ready to end it.
Instead, she found them arguing.
A gunshot.
His gun.
Her body hitting the floor.
She remembered the strange calm that washed over her as she stepped out of the shadows wearing the dead woman’s coat. The coat still warm.
The man’s face twisted in horror as the final pieces locked into place.
“You… you switched the rounds?” he gasped, blood bubbling at his lips.
She tilted her head, red hair plastered to her cheeks like fresh blood.
“I watched you load the gun this morning. I swapped them while you were in the shower. You always were too trusting after you fucked her.”
His breathing grew shallow. The silhouette in the rain didn’t move.
Lightning cracked again, illuminating the dead woman’s body a few feet behind him — identical red hair, same leather jacket, same build. A perfect mirror.
Only now the mirror was broken.
“I loved you,” he whispered, eyes glassy. “She was just…”
“Convenient?” she finished, voice ice. “A younger version? Someone who didn’t ask questions?”
Tears mixed with rain on his face.
The redhead stepped closer, gun barrel kissing the center of his chest, right over the bullet she had made sure would find him.
“I gave you everything,” she said softly. “My trust. My body. My future. And you put a bullet in it.”
He tried to speak but only blood came out.
Behind them, the silhouette finally stepped forward into the flickering light.
It wasn’t a ghost.
It was her.
The real her.
The one who had never been shot.
The one who had planned every second of this night.
She looked down at the dying man with something almost like pity.
“You chose the wrong redhead tonight.”
His eyes rolled back. His body slumped against her.
She caught him gently, almost tenderly, lowering him to the wet floor as rain washed the blood from both their bodies.
For a long moment she just stared at him.
Then she whispered the words he would never hear:
“Happy anniversary.”
The last fluorescent tube exploded in a shower of sparks.
Darkness swallowed everything except the sound of rain and her calm, steady breathing.
She was still breathing.
He wasn’t.
And somewhere in the storm, the real bullet had finally found the heart it was meant for.
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