What Stands in the Dark
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Preface: Before the Canyon
Science Fiction Sex Story: Preface: Before the Canyon - What Stands in the Dark is a mythic modern saga of wolves, vampires, and the cost of choosing to protect in a world that feeds on the innocent. When Jer Morgan awakens an ancient power meant to free Earth from a hidden empire, he must face the truth that real strength is not found in domination—but in standing when others fall. In the shadows of war and destiny, a reluctant king begins to rise.
Caution: This Science Fiction Sex Story contains strong sexual content, including Ma/Fa Consensual Romantic Fiction Science Fiction Aliens Extra Sensory Perception Vampires Were animal AI Generated
Jer Morgan had always been good at being the steady one.
Not the loudest. Not the one people told stories about later. Just the man who kept the lines open when everything else tried to fall apart.
In the Army, that mattered. Communications. Networks. Encryption. Relay points. He made sure squads stayed connected when terrain, weather, and chaos tried to cut them off from one another. He learned early that wars weren’t won by the man pulling the trigger. They were won by the people who made sure everyone else knew where to be when the world started breaking.
Jer liked that role.
He just never thought it would become the story of his whole life.
Twelve years in uniform. Sergeant by the end. Respected, reliable, never reckless. The kind of soldier commanders trusted when plans went sideways.
And when he finally stepped out of that life, he thought the hardest part would be leaving the structure behind.
He was wrong.
The hardest part was realizing how quiet everything became when no one needed him anymore.
He had done everything right. Degrees earned between deployments. Psychology. Business. Computer science. He built a future the way he’d been taught—piece by piece, discipline over impulse.
He even built a life with someone he believed in.
And then came his last deployment.
Korea wasn’t dangerous in the way people expected. No firefights. No medals. Just long months and longer nights—the kind where distance tests things that don’t make headlines.
When he came home, he walked into a truth that didn’t need shouting to be devastating.
She had been unfaithful.
Not once in a moment of weakness. But in a way that felt ... planned.
She didn’t cry when he confronted her. Didn’t beg. Didn’t even deny it for long.
She just stood there, calm in a way that made his chest tighten.
“It happened,” she said. “I’m not proud of it. But I’m not sorry either.”
That was the part that stayed with him.
Not the betrayal. The calculation behind it.
She spoke about their future like someone already rearranging it in her head—what she deserved, what she had waited for, what she was tired of putting on hold. She said she loved him. She also said she loved herself more.
When Jer ended the engagement, she didn’t fight him.
She simply nodded, as if this was an outcome she had already prepared for.
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