Rose.
For a moment, the diner disappeared. The noise, the rain, the flickering light—it all faded into something distant and unreal. Only the word remained.
The biker slowly lifted his eyes toward the man at the counter.
The young man finally smiled. Not warmly. Not kindly. It was the kind of smile that didn’t belong in a human face—too controlled, too intentional.
“You’re still alive,” the man said quietly.
The biker didn’t answer right away. He just stepped forward once. Then again. Every movement heavy, deliberate.
“Where is she?” the biker asked.
The man tilted his head slightly.
“That depends on whether you still deserve to know.”
The girl clutched the biker’s vest tighter. Her small voice broke through the tension.
“She told me… you would come.”
That line changed something in the biker’s expression. The anger didn’t explode—it deepened.
Now it had weight.
“You involved a child,” the biker said, voice low. “That was your mistake.”
The man at the counter slowly slid off his stool. Calm. Confident.
“You left first,” he replied. “Don’t rewrite history just because you found a cause.”
The biker took another step forward.
The wolf patch on his back seemed almost alive under the diner lights.
For a moment, neither man moved.
Then the biker spoke one final time, quiet and absolute:
“If her name is Rose… then this ends tonight.”
The diner went completely silent.
And the man at the counter reached into his pocket.
