-swallowbird
And if a cage is built of velvet
who can prove you were ever
trapped at all?
▍AN ORIGINAL ╱ THRILLER
⠀⠀ ⠀⠀ In the high walled enclave of Blackwood, perfection is an art form.
⠀⠀ ⠀⠀ Nathaniel Driscoll is its master. Immaculate, patient, and impossibly tailored, he carries the burden of a tragic home with quiet grace. His wife, Love, is the town's collective heartbreak, a dying flower drifting in an unexplainable haze, her mind slowly splintering into fevered suspicion and quiet cruelty toward the man who keeps her alive.
⠀⠀ ⠀⠀ Everyone pities him. Everyone sees a saint bearing the weight of a woman losing her grip on reality.
⠀⠀ ⠀⠀ Then comes Faye. Safe inside the chalk dusted sanctuary of Sankt Elisabeth, she lives by the calm rhythm of low wooden tables and children's laughter. But the morning Nathaniel steps across her threshold, his magnetic, measured warmth tilts her world on its axis, pulling her into a space where boundaries dissolve into quiet temptation.
⠀⠀ ⠀⠀ Yet while Blackwood watches the tragic husband and the quiet teacher draw closer, something far more volatile is stirring behind the drawn curtains of the Driscoll estate.
⠀⠀ ⠀⠀ Love is awake. Her fevers are gone. Her hands are bleeding, her pulse is racing, and her mind is a razor dipped in ice.
⠀⠀ ⠀⠀ Whether she is a victim clawing her way back to the light or a creature entirely consumed by malice, one thing is certain.
⠀⠀ ⠀⠀ She is about to shatter the masterpiece he built.
❪ f!oc & m!oc ❫
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