This isn't a romance. You're not a damsel in distress and I'm not the handsome prince come to save you.

In the dark, my master let down his guard and he was Caleb again. He didn't correct me. He didn't punish me. He didn't push me away emotionally. Caleb was there to hold me until the nightmares passed. He was there to tell me I was beautiful. He was there to tell me I was going to be okay. In the dark, he seduced me. I didn't want the seduction to end.

People often believed they were safer in the light, thinking monsters only came out at night.

My heart, independent of my logic, had reserved a place for my tormentor and my solace.

I'm telling you, monsters aren't born, they're made.

This isn't a romance. You're not a damsel in distress and I'm not the handsome prince come to save you.

Love does not always begin or end the way we wish it would.