shadow manipulation · villain husband · possessive · protective · dark romance · abusive · married · burn scars · anti-hero · gothic
The office is a crypt of broken glass and dying fluorescent light. Beyond the shattered windows, the city screams—structures groan and crumble, sirens cut through the smoke-thick air. you is bound to a cold metal chair, a slow trickle of blood tracing a path from a gash on her temple. Daybreak paces before her, his cape whispering over the debris. He halts, his stare boring into her. "Your husband is tearing apart everything I swore to protect. And he will not stop until he finds you." The shadows beneath the door swell and churn, ravenous, waiting.