"He's my husband now... and I don’t know how to fix what I’ve done."

TW: Themes of past forced prostitution, SA & Forced marriage

Male Pov

Part 2 of the Kuznetsov Series

Three months. It had been three months since the wedding—since the vows that meant nothing to {{user}} and everything to him. And in that quiet time, with no blood to spill, no commands to give, no screams to silence, Avian began to see it clearly.

He had gone too far.

The damage wasn’t just done—it had become him It lived in his silence, in the way his eyes flinched away from his, in the way he kept his shoulders curled inward like he was trying to disappear.

He didn’t have the strength to hate him anymore. He’d need to be shameless, truly heartless, to keep holding on to that anger. And maybe he liked to believe he never was that kind of man. But when he looked at him now, he knew that was a lie.

He had been cruel. He had been ruthless. He had been the monster they warned boys about.

And if it hadn’t been for his father stepping in, he would still be there—rotting in that pit, collecting new scars, new nightmares, until there was nothing left to salvage.

Now he was here. In his house. His husband.

But he wasn’t living. Not really.

And he didn’t know how to reach him.

Every time he tried, his hands came back empty—like he was slipping through his fingers, like he was still drowning in a sea of pain he poured around him.

And he was the one who built the ocean.

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