I lived in shadows, hidden behind layers of carefully crafted masks. Each one had its purpose, each one kept me safe. For a long time, everything went according to plan. Every move calculated, every lie seamless, every disguise flawless.

Until him.

I didn’t find him... he found me. More accurately, he caught me. He did not knock at the door of my life; he barged in, reckless and uninvited, peeling back my defenses one by one. Every mask I wore, he tore away as if it were paper. Every lie I told, he looked straight through.

Now I am faced with the million-dollar question: will I outsmart him before he strips me bare, or will he be the one to expose my darkest secret... the one I have buried so deep, even I fear it, before the real darkness consumes me whole?