Maniac

Part 1 of the Lords of Chaos series

Every monster once had the face of a child. And sometimes… a heart too. I was born in hell. Broken, silent, useless. They gave me a new chance. They wanted to make me into someone better. But some of us are too damaged to live normally. I was never supposed to love. But she was different. The girl who whispered fairy tales to the monster under her bed. I lost her before I could make her mine. And then, twelve years later, I returned. She was no longer my little storyteller—she was a woman, beautiful, dangerously rebellious… And still my only weakness. But I'm not the hero in her story. I am the Maniac. And a Maniac loves in his own way. Darkly. Forever.