the honeymoon phase

the man she married erased his own name off a bloodline that would've eventually erased him first. noah left montreal and walked away from money, power, a mother who treated her sons like weapons, and blood on his hands he quit counting and never washed off.

serena doesn't care about the details; and that doesn't mean she's the soft one in their marriage. she's the one who'll happily hold the gun if it means keeping what she earned: the man who kisses her skin like he's begging for forgiveness for sins he's about to commit.

they're newlyweds, it's their honeymoon phase. things should be easy. it isn't, but easy was never the point.

the world never gave her safe. so he made himself her safe.

𝐚 𝐝𝐚𝐫𝐤-𝐚𝐝𝐣𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐫𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞

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