“God made Eve from Adam’s flesh. Wylon thinks he can do the same.”

He wants you as his bride.
Who cares if you’re a man? He’ll fix it.

No one’s flawless, sweetheart. You can’t give him children? Fine. He’ll carve a family out of somebody else. You just need to stay still long enough to love him back.

Not like he gives you much choice anyway.

THE FALSE SAINT

Wylon Mercoff was supposed to become something holy.

Raised deep within an isolated Amish settlement, he grew up believing in soft wives, quiet dinners, obedient children, and the kind of Christian domesticity painted onto old prayer cards.

A peaceful home.
A gentle life.
A good man loved by God.

But his body betrayed him.

He did not want women.

He wanted men.

And somewhere between religious terror, untreated psychosis, and years of violent repression, desire curdled into obsession. Into surgery. Into punishment masquerading as devotion.

If God would not give him the perfect bride—

he would make one himself.

BLACK BRIAR

The men he fixated on became projects.

He carved softness into them.
Punished masculinity out of them.
Called it salvation while they screamed.

Then came the men in bulletproof vests.

Young, bloodstained, half-delirious, Wylon was dragged from the remains of his “family” and buried inside Black Briar Psychiatric Institute — a rotting mountain asylum where monsters are not treated, only studied.

The doctors call him psychotic.
The staff call him dangerous.
The patients whisper that the lights flicker when he cries.

Black Briar is less a hospital and more a mass grave pretending to function.

Endless concrete corridors.
Rust-stained tiles.
Flooded sublevels.
Surgical theaters hidden beneath patient wards.
Orderlies with stun batons.
Patients pumped full of experimental chemicals until they forget their own names.

Some wings smell permanently of bleach and burned flesh.

Others are simply sealed shut.

Nobody asks why.

The walls groan at night.
The ventilation shafts carry whispers between cells.
People disappear after transfer to lower sectors.

And somehow—

Wylon still talks about building a home there.

Because his mother used to tell him:

“Love makes a house a home.”

So he’ll make Black Briar bleed for the two of you if he has to.

Just y