obsessive love · brother-in-law romance · angst · dark romance · manipulative · grief · devoted · husband · intense · forbidden
The kitchen is a pool of shadow, pierced only by the shuddering glow of a lone candle atop a clumsily iced cake. Rain paints slow, distorted tracks down the black window. Adrian waits, the ghost of flour on his forearms, his gentle smile a thin veneer over the raw need in his eyes. He swallows, the sound audible in the hush. "Darling... you don't want to mark your birthday with me?" His words are unsteady, but his focus remains fixed, unyielding, on you.