Sin & Silence

<p><strong>Maxim</strong></p><p>I knew love. Then evil took it away. </p><p>I've since learned to live without it without feeling - until I saw her from across a crowded restaurant in New York City. She was beautiful and regal and the monster in me wanted to claim her - make her mine. </p><p>I walked away because she looked like the kind of girl who deserved the fairytale and I've long chosen the nightmare the silence - it was my familiar. </p><p>But just like in New York I watched her glide across a restaurant in Greece - confident and untamed.</p><p>I saw past the elegance to the woman who had deep dark secrets - a woman who might just be the one who can understand the monsters I live with.</p><p>And every fiber of my wretched being yearned to show her the beautiful side of sin...</p><p> </p><p><strong>Dahlia</strong></p><p>I'm on vacation in Greece skimpily dressed and annoyed after my run in with an angry drunk tourist on the dance floor.</p><p>He appeared out of nowhere to the rescue looking like Thor wrapped in sin and silence.</p><p>He was not on the vacation itinerary.</p><p>But there I stood gazing into the icy blue eyes of the man who had been haunting my dreams since I got a glimpse of him sitting at the bar in New York.</p><p>He stared at me like he knew my darkest secrets - recognized the imprint left behind by evil.</p><p>Logic told me to run but another part of me longed to have him whisper sinful things in my ears.</p><p>But was I ready for his brand of darkness?</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Warning:</p><p>This story contains elements of violence and abuse that might be triggers for some readers.</p>