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MADNESS OF TWO #3

KAT

I was born with a monster tucked behind my ribs.

By day, I’m just another cog in the corporate machine, drowning in spreadsheets and feigning interest in baby showers. Pretending to be normal.

But at night, the monster gets to eat. It’s the only thing that keeps me from going completely insane.

Then he came along: Erik. His cold, dead eyes see right through my carefully constructed mask. I hate him on sight. He’s everything I despise: privileged, controlling, a man who thinks he owns the world.

Turns out he’s a killer, too. He wants to harness my rage, to make me his perfect, vicious doll. I should kill him. But every time his hands are on my throat, I feel something other than rage.

I feel … seen.

ERIK

My life is a meticulously curated performance.

The only time I feel anything is when I’m killing someone. The control, the finality—everything is clean, precise, and quiet.

Then I saw her: Katherine. She’s a hurricane in human skin with a darkness that calls to mine. A beautiful mess I want to own every broken piece of. Her rage is a wildfire, and I will be the one to master its flames.

But we are not the only predators in this city. A lesser monster is leaving a clumsy trail of bodies, trying to frame us, to draw us out.

You can’t run from your past, Little Monster. And you can’t run from me.

When I’m done, you will have no one left to scream for but me.