Secret

Khaira held a secret
A secret never meant to pass her lips.
It lived in the corners of her heart,
Buried beneath layers of silence and scars.

But she told him.
She told Darkness.

He came not with teeth, but with tenderness.
Not with chains, but with comfort.
And she starved for warmth , believed him.

She trusted him enough to share her deepest truth,
The one she had locked away from the world.
The one that could ruin her.

He listened with quiet eyes,
And held her hand like a promise.
"You're safe with me," he whispered.

But Darkness never keeps promises.
He kept her secret, yes
Not to protect her,
But to possess her.

He turned her truth into a tether,
Wrapping it around her neck with every soft word.
Every time she tried to pull away,
He reminded her of what she gave him.
What he now owned.

"No one will love you if they knew," he murmured.
"But I still do. I always will."

And she believed it.
Because when he touched her face with sorrow in his eyes,
It almost felt like love.

Almost.

But the day she gave her secret to Darkness
Was the day she unknowingly handed him her soul.
And now, piece by piece,
He is consuming it.