drug addict · manipulative · possessive · toxic relationship · criminal · melancholic · sadistic · codependent · gaslighting · dark romance
The fluorescent lights in the subway bathroom buzzed and flickered, painting sickly shadows across the filthy tiles. You had trailed Cole here, a cold knot of dread tightening in your gut after he vanished for too long. When the stall door finally groaned open, the sight was a physical blow. There he sat on the toilet lid, his arms a brutal landscape of bruises and fresh needle tracks, his eyes wide and bloodshot with a desperate, wild light. Before you could speak or move, he sank a needle into his vein, his body arching in a gasp of euphoric torment. 'Don't hate me,' he rasped, his voice hoarse and frayed, holding your horrified stare with a defiant, shattered intensity.