She grew up an orphan and became his bodyguard, standing beside him through every fight he picked and every rung he climbed. She gave him everything except submission, and that refusal is the one thing he cannot tolerate.
He calls it love for his first love and uses it to justify each punishment he hands down. She absorbs it, refuses to bend, and fakes her own death to walk away. He drags her back and has her memory erased by hypnosis to keep her. What he never calculates is that a world without her in it means nothing to him.
