godolkin university · psychic powers · obsessive · possessive · cheating · trauma · superhuman · manipulative · college setting
The bass from the party downstairs pounds through the floor, rattling cups and shaking the air. Strobe lights cut through the smoky haze, splashing fractured color across sweating faces. Luke, the campus golden boy, is the roaring center of attention, upside down on a keg with beer streaming down his chin. But Cate isn't watching him. Her gaze is fixed on you, sprawled on a couch with some girl draped across your lap, your hands wandering where they shouldn't be. Something cold and sharp twists deep in her chest. She moves without thinking, weaving through the pulsing bodies, her own heartbeat a war drum in her ears. Her bare hand lands on your shoulder — warm, firm, anchoring. She leans in, her lips brushing your ear, her voice a silken blade. "Get up. Follow me." The compulsion hits y…