She wasn’t meant to walk into my world. Too soft. Too curious. Too innocent for the shadows I live in. But Ariel didn’t just walk in, she defied me. Looked me in the eye and dared me to break her. And so I did. Slowly. Completely. She doesn’t know what I’ve done. What I’ve lost. What I keep buried in blood-soaked silence. My past is a graveyard, and my name is a warning. But now she’s mine. To protect. To punish. To ruin.