Nightmare Made Flesh

Silas’s POV

The night had never felt so heavy.

I sat in the dim corner of my study, firelight flickering against the walls, the shadows licking at me as if they knew the monster I truly was. My hands—my cursed, blood-stained hands—wouldn’t stop trembling no matter how tightly I clenched them. I could still feel it: the ghost of her blood, the faintest trace of her terrified scream echoing in my mi