Sean

They had been bound together by family, not by love. She never wanted this marriage. He was simply a name chosen by her parents, a face she never cared to look at. At first, he tried. He spoke gently, tried to make her laugh, asked about her dreams. But she never answered. Her silence was louder than any words. Her indifference cut deeper than hate. Days turned into months, and with every cold glance, every ignored word, something inside him broke. The man who once wanted to be loved turned into someone else—someone darker. He started watching her more closely. The way she smiled at strangers but never at him. The way she laughed with her friends but never with her husband. And slowly, his heart twisted into something unrecognizable. He no longer wanted her love. He wanted her fear. So he changed. His words became sharper, his presence heavier. He would remind her, in small ways, that she could not escape him. Every silence she gave him, he returned tenfold. Every moment she ignored him, he turned into a weapon. And one day, when she finally looked at him, really looked— It wasn’t her husband standing there anymore. It was the villain she had unknowingly created. ---