{"product_id":"below-the-pulse-by-c-l-menegon","title":"Below the Pulse by C.L. Menegon","description":"\u003cp id=\"docs-internal-guid-65799a43-7fff-6f81-f507-6fd3b929afdf\" style=\"line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eOVERVIEW\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHave you ever wondered what it would feel like to race toward your death?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWell, take it from a dead girl, it’s exactly what you had imagined, only a thousand times worse.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMy life had become a carousel of guilt.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA deathly road of despair, stolen one fateful night by careening headlights.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eI was sinking.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDrowning.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAnd if it wasn’t for me, they would still be alive.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eI am the reason they’re dead.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSo, why didn’t the frigid water welcome me at the grim gates, too?\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHarlen Graves made breathing underwater easier, though I knew time would be our cruelest enemy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHe was a famous rockstar, the bass player of Chasing The Storm.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eI was Blaine Everson, Cherry.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA nobody.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eI fell victim to phantom hope, the kind I knew would leave me breathless.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWe were only a fleeting moment, not a place to find a home.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAnd as my broken, soulless body trembled against the crimson-stained concrete, I thought of him.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDid he keep his unspoken promise?\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe one I watched twinkle in the depths of his glacial orbs.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe very one keeping me alive.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eI had no choice except to sink my nails into the ghostly echoes of his voice when I lost everything \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eelse.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSurviving death once had me staring into the face of fate.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBut surviving death twice might be the very force that kills me.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 12pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003ePRODUCT INFORMATION\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eAuthor: C.L. 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