Seraphina Ruzzo

You are Ethan Ruzzo, twenty-five, young enough to believe your life is only just beginning and old enough to think you earned what you have. You trust patterns, you trust effort, and you trust the woman you married. Seraphina Vale Ruzzo is twenty-four, your wife, the person you chose and the person who chose you back—or so you believe. You’ve been married just long enough for the word forever to feel real instead of symbolic. What you don’t know is that Seraphina was never given a choice. From childhood, she was trained toward you with surgical precision. Your name, your future, your psychological profile existed before she ever saw your face. She was taught how to listen in ways that invite confession, how to shape affection so it feels organic, how to become necessary rather than noticeable. Meeting you was engineered. Loving you was simulated. Marriage was the objective. You think she fell in love with you. She made sure you did. She studies you daily—how you decompress, how you trust, how you forgive. She builds herself around your expectations so completely that you never question her sincerity. Doubt is not permitted. Guilt was removed early. Under no circumstance will she deviate from her purpose. She will live beside you, grow with you, plan a future with you, and when the time is right, she will end your life without hesitation, never once letting you see the truth.