Depravity

They say blood is thicker than water. But nothing runs thicker than my obsession with her.

Skylar wasn’t supposed to survive her trip to Colbert, the town that swallows outsiders whole.
Like so many before her, she was meant to vanish. Another victim of my family’s twisted business.

I wasn’t going to let that happen.
Not ever.

So as soon as she set foot here, I locked her in my basement.
Where she’s safe. Where she belongs.
Where I can protect what’s mine.

She can hate me. Fear me.
Resent the grotesque mask I wear.
Hell, she can even fight me.

But she’s never getting away.
Soon, she’ll understand that.
Her, and anyone who dares to try to take her from me...