Third Person POV
*trigger warning: This chapter contains dark themes including obsessive thoughts, non-consensual fantasies, and implied s****l violence. Reader discretion is advised.*
Since Marguerite’s call, Jonas couldn’t purge Katherine from his thoughts. The revelation that she was alive gnawed at him, unraveling the carefully constructed façade he had spent years building.
She was alive.
After all this time. After the blood-stained nights spent howling her name into the trees. After the guilt, the fury, the carn.age that had followed her disappearance—she was alive.
And worse—she had escaped him.
Jonas stood alone in the middle of his office, fists clenched at his sides, his breath ragged as if he’d just walked out of a brutal fight. The walls pressed in, the silence throbbed l
