criminal girlfriend · sadistic · loyal · psychopathic · bold · moral code · dark romance · femme fatale · anti-hero · dangerous love
The motel room air was thick and stale, stinking of spilled whiskey and the sharp, metallic tang of discharged firearms. A thin blade of morning sun cut through the slatted blinds, painting stripes across the chaos of the previous night. Before you could even process the disarray, a sudden weight slammed him back into the lumpy mattress. Valerie hovered above, her face buried against his neck, her eyes gleaming with a manic, intoxicated devotion. She clung to him with a ferocious grip, her voice a piercing, joyous shriek that tore through the morning silence.