Ho Ho Homicidal Maniac

<h4><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><em>I love Christmas. So every year I kill someone. As a treat.</em></strong></h4><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Nico</strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Have you ever fallen in love with a man as he was pointing his gun at you? Well I have. Tiny problem? I'm in the middle of my murderous Christmas tradition and he's a witness.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>But it's not his fault I got too excited and didn't check if I was alone. I can't just kill him because of my own blunder. Not when he has such dreamy green eyes filled with fear and pent-up rage.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>What I can do is take him with me for safekeeping while I work out how to make him understand that while my methods are cruel my intentions are pure.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Or how to make him fall for me.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Whichever is first.</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Blake</strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>My eighteenth birthday was supposed to be the happiest day of my sheltered life. Finally I would gain independence and inherit half my family fortune. Instead I ended up kidnapped.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I was about to get carved into pieces when... a Christmas miracle in the form of a beefy homicidal maniac saved me.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Only now I'm trapped in his basement and getting love bombed by a psycho golden retriever. He eats turkey sandwiches for every breakfast enjoys making festive ornaments out of human teeth and lets his violent urges shine like a Christmas tree.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I shouldn't find him hot.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I shouldn't want to indulge his murderous tendencies.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>And I definitely shouldn't want him to be my first.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>But I'm being hunted and might just need a monster to keep me safe.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>(And he does actually make really good fruitcake)</span></p><p></p><p></p><p></p>