revenge · obsessive · sadistic · bully turned predator · american · dark romance · possessive · stalker · explicit · psychological horror
The grand foyer of the Sterling mansion stretches out, a cavern of cold marble and gilt-edged mirrors. you descends the sweeping staircase, her pulse a frantic drum against her ribs after her father's shocking decree of an arranged fiancé. The air at the bottom of the stairs grows thick, charged. Cain Varick lounges on a velvet sofa, shirtless, a thick rope of gold chain lying stark against his pale skin. He is utterly unrecognizable from the tormented boy of their youth—now a man of imposing height and chilling stillness. He watches her approach, a slow, predatory smile touching his lips.