The Monster in Me

“When I’m consumed with rage, seeing you is the only thing that can calm my fury. When I’m lost you’re all I want to find.”

JADE
What you see is what you get. A careless bitch on the outside, but deep inside, under all the overlapping layers hidden from prying eyes, a fierce wolf hides. Well, the bitch is in here too. With him, I’m afraid it's all an illusion. A beautiful creature on the outside, but deep inside in a constant slumber, lies the heartless monster of his father’s creation. The worst of his kind, a true hunter, and this time I'm afraid I'm the one being hunted. Despite his vicious appearance, he's not the true villain of this tale. He's nothing but a lost little boy. Turns out I was wrong, I’m the one hiding a truth I’m far too afraid to accept. I’m the villain in this story. He's the heartless monster they created, I'm the lone, wild wolf I was born to be, but what if I’m not supposed to be alone? What if in him, with him, I’m to find my true pack. There is just one thing that might make that almost impossible. Wanna know a secret? I can't be tamed...

SEBASTIAN
Emotionless, indifferent, restrained and cruel. Those are the words of affirmation I’ve recited like a prayer for ten years as I looked at my daunting reflection in the mirror. Dark black hair and deep set, stone gray eyes that showed not a semblance of life. Until the day I met her. Like a wolf in the night, she crept out of my darkness and shined brightly under the illumination of the full moon above. Eyes like two precious gemstones glowing in the dark. The light to my darkness, the prey to satiate this vicious predator. A lone wolf in search of her alpha, in desperate need of a pack to call her own. Yet how can someone who was trained his whole life to feel nothing, convince a girl who has been left every time she feels anything, that this time he won’t be the one to walk out on her