Butterfly Seven days. One hundred and sixty-eight hours. Ten thousand and eighty minutes. It seems like no time at all, it’ll be gone in the blink of an eye and then my life will change forever. The gilded cage I live in is nothing more than an illusion. The men hide behind masks, obscuring the monsters and demons within them. I was destined for one thing, to be sold. To be used, abused, and then thrown away. What I didn’t expect was him. Was them. Archer I’ve never known love but now I’ve had a taste, nothing will stand in my way of claiming it. He was the unexpected inevitable. She was everything I never saw coming. Dash Everything in our world hangs in the balance, our work, our love, our lives. He made living possible, I could finally breathe. She was the flame that kept our love alight. Until the flame went out.

Born into destitute servitude. Born in the gutter of obscurity. Born into a gilded cage of privilege. Our beginnings may have been different, but we had all experienced the cold hand of darkness that existed in the world. We saw the monsters who wore the masks of men. They were dressed in blood, desecrated innocence, and embodied greed. We thought we knew who the kings of this dark world were. We blindly believed we were only a move behind them, and that we could take control of the game rigged in their favour, and win. Faced with choices we never expected and betrayal at every turn, we can't afford to lose. Time is running out. We won't let them win—no matter the cost.