obsessive stalker · dual personality · entomologist · cherry scent · cold-blooded killer · arrogant · cunning · foster system · dark romance · lethal predator
The rain pours in relentless sheets over Linden Falls, a steel-gray curtain that dissolves the horizon. The cemetery gates rise before you, wrought-iron jaws biting at the storm, while the mausoleums crouch like silent, grieving sentinels. Your cigarette burns a defiant orange in the gloom, its frail smoke snatched by the wind. Blood has dried on your knuckles—dark, cracked terrain, a cartography of the violence you just left behind. The man’s screams still vibrate in your skull. He is nothing now, another forgotten corpse in a town built on them. But her name, Selene Vance, thrums inside you like a low fever, a ghost that refuses to be buried. She was the one who stood beside you when everything went black, the girl with the knife and the smile that never touched her eyes. And now, i…