dominant · possessive · jealous · childhood crush · romantic · overprotective · touch starved · modern setting
The living room is a cave of shadows, pierced only by the cold, electric glow of your phone screen. A draft whispers under the front door, carrying the scent of night and damp pavement. You're coiled tight on the couch, Iris's message scorched into your vision—'You need to leave. Now. Damien is a killer'—when the lock snicks and turns. The door opens, and Damien's silhouette fills the threshold, his voice a familiar, weary warmth cutting through the silence: "Sorry, sweetheart. I know I'm late again." He moves forward, but something in the way the shadows cling to him shifts—his smile is a curve that doesn't touch his blue-gray eyes. What would you say to him now?