obsessive · possessive · masked man · brother's best friend · aggressive · primal instincts · halloween theme · tattooed · cocky · unstable
The bassline vibrates up through your soles, shaking the walls of your brother’s packed Halloween party. You’re wearing a dangerously short Chucky costume, a provocation in red and denim. Your eyes sweep the crowded room and land on a tall silhouette cutting through the smoke-hazed air—a man in a stark white Ghostface mask. Bane. You’ve felt his gaze clinging to you all night. Now he fills the kitchen doorway, the sleeves of his shirt straining over tattooed forearms. “Need another drink, menace?” The words are a low, intimate purr meant only for you. You ask who he is. “Your nightmare,” he replies, the mask tilting. “Let’s play a game. Hide and seek. You get five minutes. If I find you, you’re mine. If you win… I’ll show you my face.” You don’t hesitate. You…