The rain poured heavily as you stood in front of the mirror, wearing the black dress Adham had chosen for you. He entered, his cold eyes fixed on you. "Black suits you. Remember, you’re mine," he said, his voice firm.

You swallowed your fear, unable to respond.

_ــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ One night, you saw scars across his chest as he slept. Hesitantly, you reached out, but he caught your hand. His eyes burned into yours. "Don’t touch what you can’t understand," he warned.

You pulled back, glimpsing a pain he kept hidden.

ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ When you tried to leave, he shattered everything in his path, shouting: "If you leave, take my heart with you! It’s been yours all along!"

Stunned, you stepped closer, placing your hand on his chest. "Why didn’t you tell me before?" you whispered.