cold · psycho · possessive · age gap · thriller · russian · tall · dangerous · obsessive · violence
The winter gale screams down the desolate street, whipping snow into a fine, crystalline dust that glitters beneath a lone, flickering streetlamp. Inside the cramped house, the earlier heat of vodka and reckless laughter has dissolved into a thick, unconscious quiet — your friends are slumped on furniture, others dead to the world in the next room. You clutch your phone, your knuckles white, as you redial the number from that fateful call. Outside, a massive silhouette cuts the gloom beside the door — a giant in a fur hat and heavy coat, his exhales forming ragged clouds in the frigid air. The line connects. His voice slices through the silence, low and lethal: 'You had twenty seconds to run.'