The Price of Love

“Mother...” Killian stared at the portrait. “I won't end up like Father. I won't turn into some lunatic. And I'll honor your wishes. I won't fall in love.”

He knew all too well the price of loving someone. His father had loved his mother so obsessively that he once locked her inside this mansion. What was supposed to be a home had become her prison. She had spent her final days desperate to escape