BOOK NOTES
What Silver Hides Behind the Smile
“Some nights the city feels like a mirror. I smile, it cracks. I laugh, it bleeds. I keep pretending I belong in the light.”
How the Shadows Work
Every creature in the dark has rules. Break them, and you don’t just die — you change
Confession: I once wrote a fight scene while eating chips. The crunch lined up with a throat bite. 10/10 immersive experience.
Confession: Sometimes my characters argue louder than I do. Half the time, I’m just their scribe.
Three weeks.
That’s all it took for the silence in Matrix’s apartment to learn her name.
This chapter gutted me to write—because love doesn’t turn violent in one moment. It erodes in whispers, habits, and vanished keys. Silver’s world narrows one lock at a time until even her reflection feels like a stranger.
This is where trust curdles into control, where the promise of safety becomes the weapon.
Trigger warning: emotional manipulation, isolation, and the first crack in the illusion of “safe.”
