Charlotte couldn't escape ... from the prison Raymond put her in or from the dark love she found with him. Especially when she realized that the darkness was inside her too...
Charlotte:
I ran away from my crap life of stripping and living with my father in a trash heap of a trailer.
I thought I was headed toward freedom but I woke up in another prison.
A prison that was built just for me.
He knows things about me that no one should.
He sees things in me that I can't see.
I don't want to be here.
But I don't want to leave him either.
He's a monster for keeping me prisoner.
But I'm a monster too for loving the dark, dirty things he does to me.
Raymond:
I know I messed up.
I've been alone in this house for far too long.
Alone except the servants that skulk around in the darkness.
But then I found Charlotte and I had to have her.
I had to take her.
I have to make her mine.
Now I don't want to live without her.
But if I can't convince her to stay ...
they won't let either one of us live.
Dark Love is a dark romance that contains dark sexual themes and is 40k words in length. It's the first part of a two-part series.