ログイン∆EZEKIEL POV∆"If I ask you out properly this time… will you still run away?"For several seconds, I simply stared at him in silence.The question itself sounded strangely soft coming from someone like Zachary. Not arrogant or teasing. Just careful and almost uncertain. Which honestly felt far more dangerous to my mental stability than his usual threatening personality.I narrowed my eyes slightly afterward. "Wait… are you actually asking me on a date right now?" A faint smile appeared lazily across his lips beneath the darkness. Then slowly, he nodded once.Something embarrassingly warm twisted inside my chest immediately afterward.Unfortunately, instead of behaving like a normal emotionally stable person, my brain decided to remember something completely ridiculous.I frowned instantly.Zachary noticed immediately. "What happened now?" "I thought you preferred Sorin over me."The silence that followed lasted exactly two seconds before Zachary blinked slowly in confusion."Sorin?"
∆EZEKIEL POV∆"Don’t hate me."The words settled heavily against the back of my neck while Zachary’s arm remained loosely wrapped around my waist.For several long seconds, I couldn’t move. Couldn’t even breathe properly. The room remained completely dark except for faint city lights slipping weakly through the curtains. Somewhere far outside, thunder rumbled softly across the distant skyline, but inside this room, everything felt strangely quiet. Too quiet.I slowly turned around inside his embrace until I could finally look at him properly. Zachary still looked half-asleep, exhaustion visible across his face beneath the dim shadows. His breathing remained slow and uneven, maybe it's due to blood loss, while loose black hair fell carelessly across his forehead. And somehow… seeing someone like him look vulnerable felt more terrifying than seeing him dangerous.My eyes slowly drifted lower afterward. Toward the faint red mark still resting across his cheek. The mark I left there wh
∆EZEKIEL POV∆"You're nothing but a fool.... Is this the time to think about all those?" The words left my mouth harsher than intended while I pressed both hands tightly against Zachary’s injured side, trying unsuccessfully to stop the blood soaking through his black shirt.The smell of blood filled the destroyed bedroom heavily now. Broken glass covered parts of the floor beneath the flickering emergency lights while cold air drifted strangely through the room despite the locked windows. Somewhere outside, guards moved quickly through the hallway after hearing the gunshots, but none of that felt important anymore.Because Zachary was bleeding, and somehow… that terrified me more than the thing that had just wrapped a knife around my throat.Zachary looked down briefly toward my hands gripping his shirt before lifting his gaze back toward me again. Even injured, his expression remained infuriatingly calm, almost detached, like pain was something he had long ago learned to ignore."
∆NO POV∆"I said stay away from him," Zachary frowned, his voice sounded low enough to make the room itself feel colder.The intruder smiled faintly afterward before slowly removing his hand from Ezekiel’s jaw. "Well," he murmured softly. "You truly came running for this fragile thing..." Zachary stepped further into the room immediately. The gun never lowered. His entire posture had changed now, sharp, tense, and terrifyingly focused. Every instinct inside him seemed locked entirely onto the creature standing beside Ezekiel’s bed. The air in the room grew heavier, thick with unspoken violence and barely contained fear."How did you even get inside this mansion?" Zachary asked coldly.The intruder ignored the question completely. Instead, his crimson gaze drifted lazily back toward Ezekiel again, studying him with unsettling fascination, as if he were something rare and delicious he wanted to savor."You should feel honored," he whispered softly, his voice like velvet wrapped aroun
∆NO POV∆"So you're the weakness… to a monster like him. Interesting." The voice drifted softly through the darkness of the bedroom, cold, smooth, and utterly wrong.Ezekiel stirred faintly beneath the blankets before slowly opening his eyes. For several seconds, his mind remained trapped somewhere between sleep and reality while dim moonlight spilled weakly across the room through the closed curtains. Then his gaze lifted.And froze instantly.Someone stood near the foot of the bed.Tall, motionless and dressed entirely in black.The bedroom door remained closed. The windows too. There had been no sound of footsteps, no movement, not even creak of the floorboards. Yet somehow, someone was inside the room with him.Ezekiel’s heartbeat immediately quickened. His exhausted brain tried forcing logic into the situation at first. Maybe one of Zachary’s guards. Maybe Sorin checking on him. But the longer he stared, the more wrong the figure in front of him looked.Moonlight brushed faint
••NO POV••"Do you think Zeke forgot about me already?"Ariana’s gentle voice echoed softly through the hospital room while rain tapped softly against the windows outside.Maddison looked up immediately from the plastic cup of vending machine coffee in his hand and stared at her in disbelief."Forgot you?" he repeated dramatically while placing a hand over his chest like she had deeply offended him. "That idiot remembers the exact number of fries you stole from his plate three months ago. There’s no way he’d forget you dear... That's not even possible sweetie." A faint smile finally appeared on Ariana’s face.At least she smiled that made Maddison relieved a bit.The last few days had been difficult enough already in an unfamiliar place, she was shifted into a different place for further treatment. The hospital room looked warm on the surface with soft lights, blankets, flowers near the windows, and cartoons playing quietly on the television, but none of it could completely hide the
∆NO POV∆"Aren't you going to answer?" Zachary raised an eyebrow, his voice was low, but the seriousness in it left no room for avoidance.Ezekiel’s throat tightened.For a moment he simply stared up at Zachary, the weight of that question pressing heavily against his chest while the cold air again
∆EZEKIEL∆"What's your motive behind following me?" Zachary asked in a voice that had suddenly lost all trace of amusement as his eyes fixed on me with a cold intensity that made the air in the room feel heavier.My heartbeat stumbled immediately because that tone was very different from the teasin
∆EZEKIEL∆"Didn’t you say you would do anything I say just a minute ago?" Zachary asked from the door, watching me with the calm patience of someone who already knew how this situation would end.For a brief moment I simply stared at him, then I forced out a bright laugh that sounded far more confi
∆EZEKIEL∆"Spread my legs? My ass," I shot back before my brain could catch up with my mouth. "Try it and I’ll break yours."For half a second there was silence, thick and uneasy.Then they laughed.Not normal laughter, but the kind that crawled under your skin







