Silas I am the monster made, not born. Created in blood. Scarred by it. Defined by it.

The world sees who I allow them to see.

A decorated detective. Protector of the innocent.

That’s only half the truth. I do uphold the law by day. But by night?

I rewrite it.

I learned young that the law doesn’t protect everyone.

So I hunt down those who think they’re untouchable. The monsters justice has forgotten.

And I deliver it.

Every kill is a promise kept. Every body, a balance restored.

I follow my own rules. I leave no trace. I feel nothing.

Until her.

When her monsters came too close, I did what I do best. I made them disappear.

But saving her meant exposing the side of me no one was ever meant to see.

The night I saved her, I broke one rule.

The moment I decided to keep her?

I broke them all.


Charlotte I’ve spent my life being used, hurt, preyed upon… forgotten.

The world broke me, and no one noticed.

No one but him.

I should have run… but I didn’t.

Because for the first time, someone saw me.

The cracks. The fear. The defeat.

He thinks he saved me from a monster.

He saved me by showing me a darkness I never knew I needed.

I don’t want to run. I want to learn.

Monsters don’t scare me anymore.

Not when I have the biggest monster of them all.