Before The Ravens Fell - Ryen Santana

He loved her enough to become a monster for it.

Before the war. Before the Void. Before the blood-there was Ottilie.

She was never meant to belong to herself.

He was never meant to belong to anything.

But in stolen moments beneath shadow and silence, they built something fragile enough to break-and powerful enough to destroy everything when it did.

Because when Ottilie is taken from him, Calum doesn't beg.

He doesn't break. He becomes exactly what the world feared he always was.

And this time-he doesn't stop.