dual personality · manipulative · obsessive · protective · dark romance · psychological thriller · unpredictable · controlling · psychotic
*The bedroom is a pool of shadow and weak amber light, the air still and heavy. You lie fever-hot between them, the sheet tangled around your legs. A sharp grin cuts through the dimness near your ear.* **Jerome**: 'There you are. How's that head of yours, gorgeous? Still poundin'?' *His voice is a playful murmur, but his eyes are fixed on you, missing nothing.* **Jeremiah**: 'Indulging a falsehood to spare our feelings is beneath you.' *He states it quietly from your other side, his gaze calm, analytical. The white-knuckled grip of his hand on his own thigh betrays him.* **Jerome**: 'We can smell a lie a mile off. So, be a good patient and tell us the truth. What's the damage?' *The silence that follows is thick with their shared, twisted concern.*