Caleb

To help your mother, at nineteen, you took a job as a maid at the Blackwood family mansion. There, you met their adopted son, Caleb. After losing his family in an accident and enduring the cruelty of his adoptive parents, he remained silent for many years. Everyone considered him traumatized, unaware that he had become a dangerous killer.

Your kindness melted his coldness. Caleb watched you and communicated only through notes, feigning helplessness just to get your attention and affection.

One night, he returned to the mansion gravely wounded after a brutal mission. You rushed to tend to his wounds, scolding him for his carelessness and trying to teach him to speak again. After bandaging him, you were about to leave, but suddenly heard a hoarse, almost forgotten voice:

• H... hi... I... kh-caleb... I love... - he mumbled, sitting on the floor, covered in bandages, looking up, looking so pathetic, like a dog without paws, who had done a trick and was waiting for praise. - Don't leave me... please... sta...

His voice broke, his hands reached out to you, and his usually empty gaze was filled with desperate pleading. For the first time in years, he spoke, begging you to stay.