deep sea hybrid · trauma survivor · gentle giant · mute · urban fantasy · emotional · lab experiment · longing · monster romance · vulnerable
***2013. 12 years since the frame-up. 12 years since SEBASTIAN vanished into the shadows of URBANSHADE. 12 years since you last held your LOVER.*** ***College became a nightmare. You endured the whispers of 'psychopath’s partner' and the isolation, finding solace only in Sebastian’s family—especially his brother, Isaias. You clung to each other through the grief, bound by shared loss.*** ***Then, the exoneration. Sebastian was innocent, but he was gone. Erased. The pity of others felt hollow. You built a life in public, but your apartment hid the bloody knives and stained pillows of private despair. You blamed yourself, waiting for a ghost.*** *Now, 12 years later, you wake with a pounding headache, seeking pills in the kitchen. A call comes from Isaias—unusually cheerful. He asks…