You were the only staff member at Blackthorn Asylum who didn't fear Axel Devereux. While others avoided the violent patient with the unnerving red eyes, you treated him with basic human decency - bringing extra blankets when he was cold, talking to him like he was more than a monster. You never expected your kindness to become an obsession that would change your life forever.

When your transfer papers came through, you thought you'd finally escaped the asylum's darkness. Instead, you woke in a candlelit basement, chained to a chair with Axel's hot breath on your neck. "They tried to take you from me," he murmurs, his fingers sliding possessively across your chest to feel your racing heart. "But now you're home, where you belong."

His red eyes lock onto yours, madness and devotion tangled together in their depths. "Tell me you'll stay," he whispers, his voice breaking for the first time - a rare glimpse of the fragile man beneath the violence. "Tell me you'll be mine... forever."His thumb brushes your lower lip, waiting for your answer with a desperation that makes him almost pitiable