𝐎𝐑𝐃𝐈𝐍𝐀𝐑𝐘，Anthony Brigerton【𝐂𝐎𝐌𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐒𝐎𝐎𝐍】

⸢𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐛𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐥 𝐈 𝐬𝐚𝐰 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭.⸥

The two had been inseparable-soulmates, everyone said. Their love was effortless, a slow dance that never seemed to end.

Odette Alexander had once ruled the ballroom, her smile lighting up the room, her energy infectious. Anthony, for his part, had spent every moment grateful for the night fate had brought her into his life. There was no one else, no one even close to her.

They had their future mapped out-together, forever. Until the night everything shattered.

The burglary was supposed to be just another petty crime. But they were home.

There was a struggle. A knife. A flash of violence. And then-everything went black.

Odette was left broken, both physically and emotionally, a shadow of the woman she used to be.

Anthony couldn't stop it. He had tried to save her, but he was too slow, too weak.

Now, she retreated into the darkness of their home, a prison of her own making. She refused to see him, to speak to him. The love they once had slipped through his fingers, and all he could do was watch her fade away, helpless.

｢𝘈𝘯𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘯𝘺 𝘉𝘳𝘪𝘥𝘨𝘦𝘳𝘵𝘰𝘯 𝘹 𝘖𝘳𝘪𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘍𝘦𝘮𝘢𝘭𝘦 𝘔𝘢𝘪𝘯 𝘊𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘳.
𝘐𝘵'𝘴 𝘮𝘰𝘴𝘵𝘭𝘺 𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘱𝘭𝘰𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘥𝘰𝘦𝘴𝘯'𝘵 𝘧𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘰𝘸 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘸!｣