The Offering

He watched her. He took her. He caged her. He destroyed her. He loved her. She was a pawn to his game. A fatal offering for his freedom into the void. Until she became his rain. ----- Esme never anticipated that her nightmares were real. Haunted by a shadow of the night, a man in a goat skull mask. The Shadow Man. She certainly wasn't expecting to be kidnapped by him and his three brothers on her twenty first birthday. To be caged, tortured, relished and destroyed by them. Esme was the most valuable pawn in The Shadow Man's twisted game. Persuaded by demise, she was the offering that would set him free. How many times would he try to kill her. How many times would she try to convince herself that she was not falling in love with him