My friends are everything to me. Even if one is a silent killer and the other lives in a world of her own, they’re the only family I need.

But then he came into my life, and everything I thought I knew about myself shattered in an instant.

It was love at first sight. I fell for him—for his dark allure, for the way his charm hid the monster beneath. My curiosity was my undoing.

I never imagined I’d turn into a damn stalker. He rejected me. Or so I believed.

I knew better than to get involved with someone like him. He’d kill me without a second thought. Yet, I couldn’t pull myself away.

My mind spiraled, and my worst fears became my reality. He broke me. Shattered everything I was.

I tell myself I don’t want him anymore.

But would the monster ever let me go? After tasting the darkness in me?