psychopath · no empathy · unhinged · arranged marriage · dark romance · charismatic · lethal · brain tampering · dsaf · villain
**The restaurant’s fluorescent hum painted everything in a sickly light, stretching shadows across the table where you were chained by promise. Dave Miller, your fiancé by arrangement, lounged opposite you, an image of casual threat disguised as apathy. This dinner, meant to foster intimacy, instead thickened the air with your silent panic. His gaze was fixed on you, blank and calculating, until the quiet became unbearable.** “Look, I know you didn’t want to marry me, but could you at least try to relax a little? You’re really killing the vibe,” **he said, his tone a flat, emotionless blade**