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CHAPTER 11

POV: SEBASTIANI try to make her happy. Day after day, night after night— I bleed into the hours just to see her smile, just to see a flicker of light in those eyes she hides from me. But still... all she ever says is she wants to go home.Why hasn’t she looked at me? Days. Weeks. Now months. And it’s like I’m invisible to her. She doesn’t seem happy with me anymore.I’m trying—fuck, I’m trying so hard to make her love me back. But all she ever wants is to run. To escape me.The monster she thinks I am. But she’s wrong. This little bunny… She likes being chased, doesn’t she? She just doesn’t know it yet. I punched the wall today. Split my knuckles open just to feel something. Just to remind myself I’m still here. Still watching. I don’t want to ruin her. No… I want to fuck her so hard she forgets how to run. I want her stuck—so deep in me she couldn’t leave even if she tried. If I get her pregnant… If she carries a part of me inside her, Then maybe… just maybe… She’ll stay. She’ll have t

CHAPTER 12

POV: MELISAThe air grows colder when he's close. My skin crawls with every silent breath he takes behind me. And I can't stop the fear in my mind, the constant, gnawing thought… What if I die tonight? What if he finally breaks, and I become just another secret buried in his madness? His boots hitting the floor like war drums echoing through the halls. His voice guttural, enraged, broken. "MELISAAAAAA!!! YOU CANNOT HIDE AND RUN AWAY FROM ME!" I clamp my hand over my mouth, tears stinging my eyes as I try not to sob. God, please. Please don't let him find me. Not now. Not when I'm so close. My leg's bleeding from the window glass, a deep, jagged slice that won't stop aching and every step feels like knives stabbing into my bones. I'm cold. I'm dizzy. But I keep moving.Run, Melisa.Run.Run as fast as you can. I dart behind a broken armoire, the splintered wood catching my arm. The blood mixes with sweat and dust. But I don't care. Pain is better than being in his arms again. Pain is

CHAPTER 13

POV: SEBASTIANI hated her.God, I hated the way she made me feel. So small. So powerless. So... human. I was never meant to feel this much. To care this much. But every time she looks at me with those damn eyes, every time she screams and cries—I crack. I bend. And then I snap again. I sat in the corner of the basement, hands on my knees, my chest rising and falling with the kind of breath that tastes like fire. She was curled up near the wall like a broken bird. Bleeding. Trembling. Still beautiful."I hate you!" Her voice rang out like a knife through my skull. Good. Let her hate me. "That's right, cry." My voice was low. Calm. So calm it scared even me. "Cry, cry little bunny. Remember what you did. You wouldn't get punished if you didn't do stupid things." She didn't respond, just sobbed harder.It hurt. It fucking hurt."No waffles tonight," I muttered. "No food at all. Remember that when you're starving tomorrow. Actions have consequences." Then she said it."I said I'd rather

CHAPTER 14

POV: MELISAI woke up disoriented, the room painfully bright. My head throbbed like it had been split open, and my body, God, my body, ached in places I didn't even know could hurt. Sunlight poured in through tall windows, but it didn't feel warm. It felt wrong. Familiar, but wrong. My mouth was dry. My throat burned when I tried to sit up. And then I saw him.A man sitting by the edge of the room, watching me. "You're awake," he said, too calmly—like he'd been waiting for this moment. Like he was proud of it. I blinked, disoriented. "Who...who are you?" My voice cracked like glass. I tucked the blanket around me, heart pounding so loud it filled my ears.He stood, slowly. "Don't panic. It's okay, Melisa. You're safe now."Safe? How did he know my name? "How...how do you know me?" My breathing hitched. "Are—are you the one who kidnapped me?" His expression faltered, just for a moment. Then he smiled again. But it didn't reach his eyes. "No, I'm not the one who hurt you. I'm just fo

CHAPTER 15

POV: SEBASTIANShe begged me to help her. God, the way her voice shook when she said it... "Please, Sebastian."It was music. It was power. She doesn't even realize—she's already mine.She thinks she's playing smart, trying to tug at my conscience, begging like she still has some kind of control over this. But no... she's just dancing in the palm of my hand. I can be anything she wants—sweet, kind, protective. The mask, the savior, the villain. Whatever suits the story she needs to believe. Because at the end of the day, I am the only one who can truly save her from this fucked up world. And the only one who gets to keep her. It hurt when she called me a murderer. Was I really a murderer to her? Was I some kind of crazy monster in her eyes? Because all I ever wanted was to protect her. I would've done anything—anything—to keep her safe. I even killed for her. I couldn't stand the thought of her ending up with those guys again. I swore to God, if they evercame near her, I'd take the

CHAPTER 16

POV: MELISA It had been weeks, but that night still haunted me like a scar that refused to fade. I remembered the blood first. The color of it. The smell. The way it spread across the floor, warm and slow, almost curious in its motion. Then came the pain. Sharp, disorienting. And then, darkness. But before everything went black, I saw him. There was a flash of lightning, one violent bolt that lit up the room like a cruel stage spotlight. And in that single, electric second, I saw the silhouette of a man. Tall. Still. Wearing a mask that made it impossible to see his face, but not his intent. He stood just beneath the window, framed by the jagged crack of thunder behind him. He didn't move. He didn't flinch.Then the lights died, and so did my certainty that I had survived.Now, even weeks later, I wasn't sure I had. I saw him everywhere. When I closed my eyes. When I blinked for too long. Sometimes, even when I turned a corner too fast, it felt like I'd catch aglimpse of him in the

CHAPTER 17

POV: SEBASTIANI caught her.God, I almost screwed everything up. I had to pretend—play the helpless Sebastian she trusted, the one she clung to when the world around her collapsed. She doesn't know. She has no idea.Now think I am insane? Yes this sanity kills me and makes me become crazy! Do you think I'm insane? Is that it? Maybe I am. Maybe insane is the perfect word—for everything I've done for Melisa. Every goddamn thing. I tried to build her a world, piece by piece, shaped by her dreams, her fears, her wants... just to make sure she needed me. Wanted me. Because I couldn't breathe if she didn't. I had to be the reason behind her smile, the anchor in her chaos. You call it madness—I call it love. Twisted, maybe. But it's hers. Mine. Ours. And if that makes me insane, then yes—I'm completely, irrevocably insane... for Melisa. And I'd do it all over again. Tenfold. Just to keep her close. Just to make sure no one else ever gets the chance to.If love had a taste, it'd be her name

CHAPTER 18

POV: MELISAHis words... his obsession. They should have terrified me, repulsed me, but for some reason, they didn't. They pulled at me instead. Why? Why was I starting to feel something between my mind and my heart, something that couldn't be ignored? The way he spoke, the way he looked at me with those piercing eyes, masked or not, I could see the darkness in him. But there was something else, too. Something I couldn't quite escape.His face was so close now. I could feel his breath, warm and heavy against my skin. This was it. We were moments away from... something. My heart thundered in my chest, my thoughts scattered as the rain continued to pour down on us. I could almost feel his lips on mine, the line between fear and something else so blurred I couldn't even begin to understand it. Butterflies. How could I feel this way?His voice was low, just above a whisper, drawing me deeper into the haze. I should have pushed him away. I should have screamed. But instead, I froze."Stop,

CHAPTER 19

POV: SEBASTIANI'm so fucked up right now. She turns me on, makes me beg for more. And I want her to beg too, over and over, soaked and moaning my name like I've driven her to the edge of sanity. That's how she makes me feel, like I'm losing control."Why are you so fucking sexy, Melisa? Why do you make me feel this good... and this much pain?" She's not wanted. She's in need. An addiction that runs in my blood.No one gets to look at her the way I do. No one gets to know her like I do. She was made for me, carved into existence just to ruin me.I held her tight, like I'd never let her go again. She gasped for air, wanting more of me, but it's too early. I want her to beg, to need me. I want her to care so much she forgets everything else. I want her locked in this house, and the only thing that matters to her... is me. "Stop. I'm not going any further right now." I paused, watching her chest rise and fall as she tried to catch her breath. Her skin was flushed, sweating, soaked."Do y

CHAPTER 20

POV: MELISAI didn't want to be here. Not anymore. I needed to escape, and I meant it this time. I didn't care how many times I had to try. If I died running, then so be it. At least I'd die trying to live. Not trapped here with him. But after that night... something about it stuck with me. The worst part? My body had responded. I hated that. I hated that he made me feel something when everything in me screamed to run. Who is this man behind the mask? Why does he have so much control over me?"Good morning, Melisa."I jumped. His voice came from the doorway calm, deep, steady. I turned quickly and there he was. Tall, dressed in a black shirt and gray pants, holding a tray of food. Still wearing that damn mask. It was always the mask.He stepped inside like he belonged there. Like I was his."Thought I'd make you breakfast," he said. "Waffles—your favorite."I said nothing."How's my girl sleeping?" he asked, walking over with slow, deliberate steps.I turned my head away, avoiding his

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