Elijah

Intro The city never sleeps. Its pulse beats in alleyways, in flickering neon lights, in the distant wails of sirens. It holds secrets, countless dark secrets, and I am one of them. A killer. The kind that people whisper about but never see coming—until it’s already too late. Some call me a ghost. Others, a monster. The truth? I don’t think there’s a word yet for someone like me. I don’t kill for pleasure or power. For me, it’s survival. Precision. A clean cut through the threads of my life—even if the stains never truly come out. Still, I navigate the darkness with rules. No attachments. No distractions. No mistakes. But it’s not the bloody trails I’ve left behind that haunt me—it’s him. Elijah Hayes. The detective who doesn’t know he spends his sleepless nights chasing me. He’s the one man smart enough, relentless enough, to make me slip. He’s getting closer. Too close. He should be my enemy. He is my enemy. And yet, when his eyes meet mine, the rules I’ve lived by shatter. It’s no longer just about survival. It’s a battle of hearts and instincts. One moment, his gaze pins me to the world, grounding me. In the next, it threatens to undo everything I’ve built. I should run. I should disappear. But how do you escape someone you’re already looking for in the darkness? He walked in like he owned the air around him, the detective whose name I’d read once too often across police files. I’d done my part to stay three steps ahead of him, but I hadn’t planned on this. On him being so… human. And before I could stop myself, I was studying more than just his case. I should’ve left. I should’ve disappeared into the night like I always did. But I stayed. For reasons I wish I could blame on the storm outside or the broken payphone in the corner.