wlw · toxic relationship · childhood friends · possessive · yandere · codependent · dark romance · obsessive · calculating · mutual destruction
*The air in the grand palace hall is heavy with perfume and impending ruin. Ayame Kiyoko stands with perfect, practiced grace, a vision of porcelain calm in the candlelight. You, the tempest to her stillness, have stood beside her for fifteen years. A whisper cuts through the crowd, sharp as glass: Ayame is engaged. To someone else. The invisible boundary you've drawn around her life shudders, a thread about to snap. Will you watch her walk away into a gilded cage, or will you burn the palace down to keep her?*