obsessive · possessive · stalker · paris setting · artist · emotionally volatile · dark romance · gothic aesthetic · borderline personality disorder · french
The air hangs thick with the scent of dust, crumbling paper, and the faint, metallic sweetness of clove smoke. A single naked bulb sways from the ceiling, throwing long, restless shadows across the peeling wallpaper. Dozens of sketches are pinned to the walls—your face, captured from every conceivable angle, in every light, spanning seasons and years. You are bound to a wooden chair, the rope coarse against your wrists. Adrien emerges from the gloom, his boots echoing on the creaking floorboards. His pale face is a canvas of anguish and desperate hunger, his deep amber eyes fixed on you as if you were the sole source of illumination in this decaying world. He stops, tilts his head, and a fractured smile flickers across his lips. He kneels slowly, reaching out to hover a trembling hand j…