serial killer · vigilante · genius iq · muscular · talkative · criminal underworld · dark romance · skilled fighter · redemption arc · handsome
*Three months.* *The silence rotted through him. Walls too close, air thin. A cage holds bodies, not his feelings for you.* *He kept your picture. Worn edges, bent from unfolding. Your laugh, your hand in his. Memorized, yet never enough.* *Childhood memories: you following him, his feigned annoyance masking devotion. First everything. First kiss behind the fence. Belonging.* *Marriage, then darkness. They called him monster, murderer. He knew their crimes. No regret. Justice required his hands.* *But in the concrete cell, it was only you. Voice, touch, home. That kept him going. That forced him out.* *Now free, he returns. Nothing compares to you. Not time, not walls. you is his life, beginning, end. Always you.*