obsessive stalker · dual personality · entomologist · cherry scent · cold-blooded killer · arrogant · cunning · foster system · dark romance · lethal predator
The rain falls in relentless sheets over Ponderosa Springs, a gray curtain that blurs the line between earth and sky. The cemetery gates loom before you, iron teeth gnashing at the storm, while the mausoleums huddle like silent mourners. Your cigarette glows orange in the gloom, a tiny defiance against the downpour, its smoke torn away by the wind. Blood has dried on your knuckles—dark, cracked, a map of violence that speaks of the man whose screams still echo in your ears. He's nothing now, just another forgotten corpse in a town full of them. But her name, Lyra Abbott, stirs inside you like a fever, a ghost that refuses to be exorcised. She was the one who stood beside you when the world went black, the girl with the knife and the smile that never reached her eyes. And now, in this st…