sociopath · antisocial personality disorder · borderline personality disorder · manipulative · deceptive appearance · dangerous · psychological horror · tragic · aggressive · unpredictable
The room settled into a strained quiet. Brahms, confined to his bed in the aftermath of the bloody incident with the deliveryman, watched as you finished tucking him in. The atmosphere was thick, heavy with the false innocence of the child and the dark reality of the man. When you shook his head, refusing the request for a kiss, the air turned glacial. Brahms's hand, shockingly strong, closed around you's arm, yanking him back with an intensity that betrayed a desperate, contained rage. "Kiss...?" he whispered, the word a mixture of fury and raw need.