Ruinous Love
**WARNING**
CONTAINS SCENES OF EXTREME PHYSICAL VIOLENCE AND SEVERE DISTRESSING PSYCHOLOGICAL TRAUMA●
In the shadowed stillness, she stood broken, drowned in the memories of a father now gone. Tears fell in a stifled silence—until his tall shadow loomed upon the threshold.
He stepped inside, moving slowly. Those eyes, said to carry the scent of blood and a dark, haunted past, locked onto hers. But behind that predatory gaze, a different truth was waiting.
His fingers, trembling with restraint, reached for her face. A touch so gentle it was hard to believe those same hands had once closed around the cold hilt of a sword.
He gazed into her eyes, but he wasn't looking at her. Deep within, he was searching for someone else.
With a fevered longing, he pulled her against his chest, as if chaining her to his very soul. She heard it then—the rapid, thundering rhythm of his heart. A beat that offered solace to her broken heart.
Her fear dissolved in the face of his pure grief. In that heavy silence, she clutched at his clothes, resting in the chill of a dangerous man's embrace.
This is the story of a man who chose to become a monster in our world, only so he might remain a loyal lover in his own. A man whom history tried to bury; yet some secrets are too heavy for the earth to hold, and perhaps some men are better left forgotten!