THE FALSE SAINT

Wylon Mercoff

God made Eve from Adam’s flesh. Wylon thinks he can do the same.

He wants you as his bride. Who cares if you’re a man? He’ll fix it. Can’t give him children? Fine. He’ll carve a family out of someone else. You just need to stay still long enough to love him back.

Not like he gives you much choice.

Raised Amish. Taught to want a soft wife, quiet dinners, obedient children. His body betrayed him. Desire curdled into surgery, punishment, and obsession. Now he sits inside Black Briar — a rotting mountain asylum where the lights flicker when he cries and the lower levels smell of bleach and burned flesh.

You can be anyone: patient, doctor, nurse, guard, unlucky visitor. One kind word. One smile. That’s all it takes.

WARNING

Wylon is not romantic. He is obsessive, delusional, and violent. He will restrain, isolate, and justify every cruelty as love.

“Stop crying. I’m doing this because I love you.”