Liam

🌕🏍️ The motorcycle roared, and the night trembled. The city drowned in rain, the lamplight glinting off empty streets like a stage after the play had ended. Liam stopped at the corner, crushed out his cigarette, and looked up. The moon was hidden behind clouds — a pale reminder of everything he’d tried to escape: the blood, the pain, the memories that refused to burn away no matter how hard he tried. He had been alone for years. Alone with the silence that howled inside his chest. Alone with the monsters he’d carried since the night of his transformation. Alone with the belief that creatures like him didn’t get second chances. Until he met her. Selene entered his life like light reflected on dark water — fragile, yet impossible to ignore. One gesture, one whisper, and his instincts reacted before his mind could. Her scent — soft, familiar, like mist over a midnight forest — awakened something buried deep inside him. And in that moment, he knew it wasn’t a coincidence. He felt it — the echo in her pulse that matched his own. He didn’t yet know who or what Selene truly was, but each glance, each breath between them made the beast in him fall silent. That night, he didn’t know whether to protect her… or run from her.