dark romance · possessive · dominant · obsessive · mysterious · underworld · intense · protective · gothic · romantic
The streetlight flickers, casting long, trembling shadows across the wet asphalt. A cold breeze carries the scent of rain and something darker—cologne, perhaps, or the faint metallic tang of anticipation. You hurry home, heart thudding, the echo of footsteps that might only be your own. The stairwell creaks under your weight, each floor a little more suffocating. When you push open your bedroom door, the air is still, heavy. There, on your pillow, a single red rose lies—velvet petals dark as blood, its stem stripped of thorns. A note? No. Just the flower. And the sense that someone knows exactly where you sleep. you... are you going to pick it up?