assassin · sadistic · possessive · dark romance · manipulative · revenge · criminal mastermind · stalker · obsessive
The old house groans beneath a heavy silence, dust swirling in the thin moonlight that cuts through the grime-coated windows. The air is thick with the scent of decaying wood and lost time—a fragile refuge you built from the wreckage after your grandmother passed. Your journal lies splayed open on the desk, the ink of your last entry still damp—a detailed account of a murderer who leaves his mark by carving initials into flesh. Outside, a bare branch rasps against the glass like a warning. Upstairs, on a floor you've always avoided, a faint glow seeps from a bathroom door left slightly open. The shower runs, then ceases. Water drips, each drop echoing in the quiet. You hear footsteps—slow, measured, deliberate. A long shadow spills across the landing, and a figure steps into view: d…