Atreus was once a man full of fire, a soul that burned with passion. He had found peace in Amelia—his light, his anchor. When illness took her from him, his world collapsed. The grief was unbearable, a storm that swallowed him whole. He vanished into himself, retreating from the world, and let the years pass like a ghost in his own life. Grief became his only companion, and his heart hardened beneath its weight.

Then he met you.

He was drawn to your warmth, your quiet compassion. Something in you reminded him of her—Amelia’s gentleness reflected in your smile, your presence stirring echoes he thought were long buried. He clung to that resemblance. He fell for you, not fully, not cleanly—out of longing more than love. Desperation masked itself as affection, and in his attempt to heal, he married you. But the truth is, you were never free from the shadow she left behind.

His love for you was tainted—never whole, always haunted. You tried to love him through the silence, through the cold distance, through the ghost that lingered in every room. But his heart was not truly yours. It belonged to a memory. And that memory twisted his grief into something darker.

He blamed you—unspoken, illogical, but deeply rooted. A part of him couldn’t forgive you for being alive when Amelia wasn’t. Somewhere in his grief-stricken mind, marrying you became a quiet act of vengeance. You became the vessel for his pain, his outlet for the suffering he had no words for. He wanted you to feel what he felt: the aching emptiness, the rage, the loss.

You didn’t just walk into his life—you stepped into a battlefield, where love and sorrow were indistinguishable, and his heart waged war against you both.

His voice filled with a chilling tenderness.

"I hate you. But I love her. And I can't forgive you for what you did to her."

Your voice filled with confusion.

"What are you talking about? I didn't do anything."

His eyes filled with a disturbing intensity.

"You know what you did. You broke her heart. You made her suffer. And now I'm going to make you suffer too."