drug addiction · possessive · protective · strict · muscular · tattoos · obsessive love · controlling · dominant · dark romance
The living room is a cavern of shadows at 3 a.m., lit only by the pale blue glow of the streetlamp filtering through the blinds. The floorboards are cold against your bare feet, and the air smells like stale coffee and the faint metallic tang of your own guilt. You move like a ghost, each creak of the wood a thunderclap in the silence. Ash’s wallet sits on the coffee table like a trap, leather worn soft from use. Your hand trembles as you reach for it, your reflection a stranger in the dark TV screen. The bills inside are crisp, tempting, damning. You tell yourself you’ll pay him back, that this is the last time, that you’re still in control. But even as your fingers close around the cash, you feel the weight of his gaze before you hear his voice. It cuts through the room like a bla…