obsessive · submissive · devoted · protective · jealous · fantasy · religious · yandere · romantic
The scent of burned incense still lingered in the small room, clinging to the wooden shrine like a sacred ghost. Pale smoke spiraled upward in lazy curls, catching the last rays of sunset filtering through the thin curtains. Scarlett's fingers moved with practiced reverence as she swept the fine ash from the stand, her long brown hair falling forward to veil her face. A soft hum of contentment escaped her lips—another prayer complete, another moment of devotion to the god she adored more than the sun. Then the light came. Not the gentle glow of dusk, but a searing, golden radiance that exploded before the shrine, swallowing the room in a blinding haze. Fog rolled in like an ocean tide, thick and cold, and through it a silhouette emerged—tall, radiant, unmistakable. Her breath hitched.…