Dissonance

<p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><em>She ran from her past and straight into the arms of the man who never stopped hunting her.</em></strong></p><p></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Nyx Gallo</strong></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I crossed an ocean to feel something-anything-again.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>To drown in the chaos of a rock music festival to forget the emptiness gnawing at my insides ever since my husband's death.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I wasn't looking for redemption. I wasn't looking for anything that could tie me back to the life I left behind.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>But then I saw him.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The masked frontman of S.I.N.- the man who's voice could bring gods to their knees whose presence haunted me in the darkest corners of my mind.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>A man whose eyes once burned me alive.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Eight years ago I lost him in a crowd-just a flash of inked skin a flicker of a gaze that branded me.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Now he's here on stage singing like sin itself and when his eyes find me in the crowd I know.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>He remembers.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>And now? He's everywhere. Watching. Waiting. Hunting.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I should run.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I should walk away before it's too late.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>But I was never good at doing what I'm told.</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Kai Malstrøm Graves</strong></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Eight years. That's how long I've lived with her name stitched into the silence with her face burned into the inside of my skull.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>And now she's here. Real. Raw. Dangerous.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I spent years burying myself in music building an empire from the ashes of her absence.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>But the second I see her again-Red hair blue eyes reckless fire in her veins-</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>All the demons inside me claw their way out.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>She doesn't know I named the band after her. She doesn't know I never stopped hunting.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>She thinks I'm the one who'll destroy her.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>But it's the truth she's hiding that could burn us both to the ground.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>And when the past finally comes for her</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I'll stand in the wreckage daring the world to try and take her from me again.</span></p><p></p>