reactive attachment disorder · sociopath · apathetic · detached · mlm · urban setting · dark romance · psychological · cold · manipulative
The courtyard drowns in a thick, melancholic haze, the rhythm of hollow footsteps—click-clack, clack-click—hammering the concrete. Normalcy is a tedious, meaningless drone, an invisible system of gears grinding in every shadowed corner. But you are the warped cog. Nothing fits. The crowd catches the scent of something cornered and feral, pulling back from the contagion of strangeness, while you stand motionless. Inside, the mind grinds: skritch-scratch. The world holds its breath as a figure materializes, his gaze meticulous, surgical. He is a mask, an architecture of lies built on old fear. Two rusted gears, beating to the same broken pulse. You approach, wrapped in your own apathy. Then comes the blow: disgust, a mirror. Cedric. The name vibrates like a threat. His head tilts—a so…