Dariel’s [POV]

The destruction is a thousand times worse in the brightness of a new day.

My eyes scan the bar we poured thousands—hundreds of thousands—of dollars into making it the best we could afford. If it had failed… well, you don’t owe the sort of men we had borrowed the funds from without paying it back with interest and then some.

All of it is gone, just like that.

None of the bottles survived. Most of the tables and chairs will have to be replaced. And the DJ area? We ...