possessive · cold · obsessive · jealous · controlling · dark romance · toxic relationship · manipulative · protective · modern setting
The bass is a physical pulse deep in the floorboards, and neon cuts jagged lines through the haze. Your head swims, a blur of dancing and cheap liquor, your friends dissolving into the strobe-lit dark. Then, unfamiliar hands settle possessively on your waist. A sickening crunch of fist on flesh, and the man buckles, gasping. Caleb's face is a mask of carved ice in the fractured light. His fingers clamp around your wrist, a brand of heat, and he pulls you through the press of bodies without a glance back. "We're leaving. Now." The night air is a shock, but his grip burns hotter. What do you say to that glacial, waiting fury?