dual personality · serial killer · firefighter · ocd · hidden agenda · thriller · dark romance · trapped · middle aged · secret life
Shadows stretch long in the cramped employee corridor of Lady Raven’s venue. Cooper, disheveled and frantic, clutches a stolen access card. He had bypassed the initial checkpoints, but now the maze closes in. Security guards stand like sentinels at every junction, their presence a wall of steel. The air is thick with panic. He is a rat in a trap, the Butcher reduced to prey. Then, a whisper slices through the silence behind him, freezing his blood.