Touch me tender, Break me wild: A Steamy Compilation
No, it was a man—a traveler, innocent, just passing through with his pack on his back, humming some old tune about home.
I could still hear his screams echoing in my head, sharp and pleading. 'Please, what are you? Stay back!' he'd yelled, swinging a stick like it could fend off the monster I was. But I hadn't stayed back. The wolf had surged, jaws snapping, and now his body lay mangled back there in the clearing, his blood soaking the earth. Guilt twisted in my gut like a knife, hot and unrelenting. Who was I anymore? Silas, the lone wanderer, or just a killer hiding in the woods? The forest felt heavier tonight, the air thick with the scent of pine and death, pressing down on me like it kn