Love isn't supposed to taste like betrayal. And they aren't supposed to like the way it hurts. But they'll risk everything for an obsession that might destroy them both.

Coda

I was innocent once.

Until I watched my parents die by the hands of a man they trusted.

The streets swallowed me, and no one noticed.

I swore then that he'd paid.

I've spent the last twenty-five years covered in blood, biding my time.

I'm the thing monsters fear. I'm the last thing they see.

Until now. Until her.

I came for her father. I left with her.

I wasn't supposed to feel. I wasn't supposed to fall.

But now, I'll claim. And I'll kill.

She's mine. No one is taking her from me.

Karina

I was drowning once.

Until he held out his hand and pulled me into the dark.

I swore then that I'd follow him anywhere.

But I didn't know I was following him to hell.

He has secrets. And sins.

And somehow, I'm caught in the middle, a pawn in a game I don't understand.

But still, I feel. Still, I fall.

And when the truth comes out, I break.

Love isn't supposed to taste like betrayal.

And I'm not supposed to miss the way it hurts.

And yet…I want it back. Even if it destroys everything.