I stare back at the man in front of me. The man I accidentally fell in love with in the dark cellar that we claimed as home. I can only see his back, but I know his breathes come out hard. He is the only thing standing between me and the monster that has haunted me all my life.
He is the monster all other monsters cower under. A bigger, badder monster. One more vicious. More voracious. One more violent than any other. Because he was created by the same monsters that tried to destroy me.
Their creation. Their weapon. Their assassin. The only thing they never planned was for him to turn on them. To become the thing that protected their toy. That would stop at nothing to protect me. Even it meant his own life. To destroy the one thing that mattered more than anything to them. Himself.
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I don't mean to be unkind but: You write, "I can only see his back..." but open the piece by writing "I stare back at the man in front of me." Does this imply that his head is twisted, horror-style, behind him? ... "Even it meant..." I guess I'm supposed to insert the 'if' ie: "Even if it meant..." .."his breathes" This is a piece of flash fiction, no? Three short paragraphs. My point is there are far too many typos, errors, etc that should have been corrected by the editors. Seriously. I would like to learn more about the action that took place in the second line.