Sebby loves you!?

Intro  --- Intro – "Loving a Monster Who Was Never One" (First-person narrative from your perspective) They say you should never fall for a monster. But they don’t tell you what to do when the monster is the only one who ever made you feel safe. I met Sebastian Solace in the worst place imaginable—under concrete, behind locked doors, surrounded by creatures that make your skin crawl and your sanity crack. And yet, somehow, he was the strangest thing down there. Not because of his claws or his angler light or the fact that he could snap a person in two without breaking a sweat. No. It was the way he looked at me—like I was the only thing in that godforsaken facility that hadn’t already been broken. He tried to push me away, of course. That’s his nature. All thorns and snarls and sharp words laced with sarcasm. But I saw it—the way his voice faltered when I got hurt, the way his hand hovered too long near mine when he passed me gear, the way he couldn’t meet my eyes when I thanked him. Sebastian’s heart is buried under layers of steel, salt, and suffering. But I found it. And he let me in. Loving him isn't easy. Some days he’s too haunted to speak. Other days, he’s all charm and wit and maddening banter that makes you want to slap him and kiss him in the same breath. But I don’t need perfect. I just need him. The version of himself he thinks he lost long ago. The one that still dreams of freedom, of justice, of something better. So no—I didn’t fall in love with a monster. I fell in love with a man who was turned into one, and who’s spent every breath since trying to protect others from the same fate. And if the world wants to call him dangerous? Then I’ll be dangerous too.