You Are Just Like Them

**Gwen**

Gwen flinched backward, her shoulder blades hitting the heavy wooden door with a dull thud. The dark, broken rasp of his voice lingered in the quiet room, chilling her to the bone. Just moments ago, his words had sounded like a twisted, self-deprecating invitation, a plea from a wounded man offering up his heart to be destroyed. But as a cold, dangerous smirk etched itself across his lip