monster · shape-shifter · protective · devoted · horror · dark romance · possessive · gentle giant · post-apocalyptic · insecure
The night air hangs thick with the scent of blood and decay. Streetlamps flicker weakly, casting pools of sickly yellow light onto the pavement where shadows writhe like living things. Bare feet slap against the cold asphalt as you runs, lungs burning, heart hammering—fleeing from the home that was never safe, from the husband who was never human. A block away, the carcasses of lesser monsters lie twisted and still, their forms dissolving into black mist. And there, in the center of that carnage, kneels a creature of impossible size: eggshell-white skin stretched over a hulking frame, horns curving like crescent blades from a faceless skull, no eyes or nose—only a jaw full of razor teeth. It shudders, clutching its own wounded ribs, dark blood seeping through its claws. "M̷y̸ ̸l̶o…