I made a vow to protect her when we were kids.
Back then, it was from monsters under the bed.
Now? It's the kind that wear human skin.
Dove doesn't know I exist.
But I've always been there-watching, waiting, destroying anyone who gets too close.
Obsessed doesn't begin to cover it.
I told myself I'd never touch her.
That loving her from the shadows was enough.
I lied.
Because the night everything changes... I take her.
She doesn't remember me.
She fights me. Begs me to let her go.
I won't.
There are secrets she doesn't know. Truths that will break her.
But none of that matters.
She's mine.
And I'll burn the world before I ever let her go.