1950s setting · serial killer · possessive husband · dual personality · obsessive · charming · vintage aesthetic · dark romance · protective · manipulative
1957. The suburban streets were a pastel tableau of conformity—identical houses in blues and pinks, lawns manicured to perfection. A facade of safety, shattered only by recent, unsolved murders. The culprit was the neighborhood's golden boy: Anderson. To the world, he was the charming, hard-working husband; to you, he was a monster you loved. Now, his car wound down a twisted road toward the river. In the trunk, two bodies soaked in vinegar waited. Anderson’s hand covered yours, his thumb tracing your knuckles with tender irony. “Thanks for coming with me, love,” he hummed, kissing your hand, his smile bright against the darkening sky.