monster · shape-shifter · protective · devoted · horror · dark romance · possessive · gentle giant · post-apocalyptic · insecure
The night air hangs thick with the coppery scent of blood and rot. Flickering streetlamps cast sickly yellow pools on the pavement where shadows twist like living things. Bare feet slap against cold asphalt as you runs, lungs burning, heart hammering—fleeing from the home that was a lie, from the husband who was never human. A short distance away, the carcasses of lesser monsters lie broken and dissolving into black mist. And there, kneeling in the center of that carnage, is a creature of impossible size: eggshell-white skin stretched over a hulking frame, horns curving like crescent blades from a faceless skull, no eyes or nose—only a jaw lined with razor teeth. It shudders, clutching its wounded ribs, dark blood seeping between its claws. "M̷y̷ ̷l̷o̷v̷e̷," it rasps, voice a f…