The-Black-Bat
In the shadows of Gotham, trust can be an incredibly dangerous thing-and love can be even more deadly than that.
Cassandra Carolyn Wu'san-Cain has spent her life moving through silence, reading the world in heartbeats and broken movements. She was trained to be the perfect weapon, to feel nothing, to need no one. Séamus O'Callahan was never supposed to survive long enough to care about anything at all. Forged by loss, shaped by control, and haunted by a past that refuses to stay buried, he walks the line between protector and the embodiment of the perfect government agent.
When their paths finally collide inside the Batfamily, what begins as mutual respect quickly becomes something far more complicated. First just allies that slowly became acquaintances. Then they became friends, then good friends. Then they became best friends. But slowly that changes, sparring sessions grow more close and when they end, they lock eyes for a moment longer than normal. Quiet moments linger too long between them yet feel so laxed and comfortable. And beneath the discipline they both cling to, something dangerous begins to take root in the hearts and their minds.
But Gotham does not forgive the broken. Old ghosts are stirring. Secrets are waiting to surface. And the closer Cassandra and Séamus grow, the more they risk losing the fragile control that they have had over their lives.
Because in a city built on masks, crime, death and the world's worst monsters, falling in love might be the most dangerous move of all that they could even make.