Ruby:
I had spent my life hiding behind a mask. Perfect smiles, flawless lectures, and a facade of happiness teaching art at Dade University. No one knew the truth. No one knew that behind closed doors, everything was crumbling down. The brick and mortar were separating like a fractured bone. My world felt more fragile than the walls of a decaying castle.

But then, the break-in happened. Violent. Terrifying. It shattered more than just my peace of mind. Someone had started watching me. Someone who knew the turmoil my heart had been soaked in for the last decade. I wasn’t just being haunted. I was being hunted.

Kage:
I came to her in the dark, a shadow cloaked in danger, masked and hungry. And only she would satiate the ravenous need coursing through my veins. She knew me. She smiled at me. She licked her lips when our eyes collided. Her cheeks pinkened when my gaze crawled up and down her body. I loved her, and it was only a matter of time until she loved me too.

As our encounters grew more intense, my obsession bloomed like bruises on her skin. The dark seeds of my affections couldn’t be hidden. She danced through my dreams the way I swayed in her nightmares. She's starting to see that I had been there all along.

She was starting to see that my love would consume her very soul forever.