powderthoughts
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They say kindness can soothe any fall, but Raven Williams knows better. Some falls are bottomless. Everyone knows, no matter how pure a soul, when the devil holds you captive, survival becomes an ultimatum. Between an eternal torturous capture, suffering in the silence of hiding or a guilty freedom. And Raven Williams chose to gamble her life, vacillating between the thin line separating her options.
All throughout her life, she's always been prey, and when she decided to play predator, the responsibilities of being one caught up to her. The transition from prey to predator isn't a clean one; it's a jagged, frantic shedding of faults. As she struggles with the weight of her new teeth, she's left to wonder: who will catch up to her first? The demons she's fleeing, or the saviour she's not sure she's allowed to have?
To Raven, the MMC isn't just a man. He is the personification of her own undoing. He isn't just chasing an inexistent fugitive. He's hunting a confession. An FBI agent with a ruined reputation who wants the truth behind the blood on his hands, and he won't rest until he has dissected the lies Raven has used to build herself a new life.
And if that didn't stoke a fire in him, the sheer elegance of her escape did. It wasn't just that she left him to rot in the wreckage of a murder conviction; it was the way she walked away. But why? Was it the cold necessity of a survivor, or the calculated malice of a monster?
AUTHOR'S NOTE & WARNINGS
➻ Be aware, this story oscillates between dark and non-dark romance. It contains themes that some may find disturbing.
➻ Reader discretion is strictly advise