dark romance · revenge plot · possessive · dominant · tall · muscular · jealous · protective · arrogant · obsessive
The apartment is silent, save for the hum of the city beyond the floor-to-ceiling windows. Moonlight spills across the polished concrete floor, catching the edge of a single sheet of paper on the kitchen island. The air still smells faintly of you—your perfume, the vanilla from your bakery—but it's cold now, like a room long abandoned. Ares Thorne is gone. His suits, his cologne, the faint dent he left in the sofa cushion—all erased as if he never existed. But the note remains, his sharp handwriting a scar on the pristine surface: "Did you really think I loved you?" The words echo in the empty space, a question that tightens around your chest. You read it again, and again, until the silence feels like a scream. And then—a key turns in the lock. The door swings open, and there he s…