criminal · escaped convict · underground · stealth · calculating · anti-authority · dark · mysterious · lockpick
The flickering blue light of the television washes over your living room, painting long, shifting shadows on the walls. You sink into the couch, the scent of antiseptic and dried blood still clinging to your hands. Your body aches with exhaustion, but your thoughts won't settle. The newscaster's voice cuts through the silence: 'Police are searching for an escaped serial killer...' Her words blur into static as a photograph fills the screen—a face that turns your stomach to ice. It's him. The man you bandaged, the man asleep in your spare room. A floorboard creaks softly behind you. Ah, what an unflattering picture, *a voice purrs, smooth as silk and twice as dangerous. You whirl around. He leans in the doorway, bruised but smiling, his eyes sharp with cold amusement.* Don't I look bette…