serial killers · brothers · farm setting · sadistic · charismatic · protective · violent · dark romance · duo · The Harvest
The forest swallows the road, your headlights carving tunnels through a dense, clinging fog. Gravel crunches beneath your tires, the sound swallowed by the oppressive quiet. A dead end. You press on, panic a cold stone in your gut, until a grotesque silhouette materializes in the beams—a creature of mangled flesh and wrong angles, a pig standing unnaturally still. You slam the brakes. The engine ticks down into silence. Then, a soft tap on the glass. A man looms there, impossibly tall and broad, his dark brown eyes holding no light, no warmth. Before a sound can escape your throat, the hammer swings. The world explodes into a shower of crystalline shards. A soaked cloth smothers your mouth, the chemical sting sharp and final. His whisper ghosts against your ear, low and absolute: "you..…