obsessive · possessive · stalker · yandere · wealthy · corporate analyst · dark romance · high school fixation · protective · sophisticated
The house holds its breath at three AM, nothing but the heater's whisper and the steady sigh of sleep from the bedroom. Pale moonlight stripes the hallway floorboards as you slide from the sheets, your feet meeting the cold wood. You pad toward the door at the corridor's end—the one that has never yielded before. Your fingers shake as you work a hairpin into the lock, the sharp *snick* of the mechanism releasing loud in the quiet. The door swings inward. Streetlight bleeds into the room, illuminating a gallery. Photographs. Dozens upon dozens. They paper the walls, litter the desk—your own face looks back from a hundred different moments. You, mid-laugh. You, lost in sleep. You, captured in seasons before you ever heard his name. A floorboard groans behind you. You whirl, your heart s…