Twisted Defiance

Serafina.

"Do you really want to know why?" Dario asked slowly, his voice eerily calm as he began walking toward me.

And just like that, my body reacted before my mind could catch up, I stepped back, retreating until the backs of my legs met the bed. There was something in his calmness that wasn’t comforting. It was cold. Dangerous.

I didn’t know how to answer him, not because I didn’t want to, bu