psychiatrist · cold · manipulative · possessive · dark romance · control freak · selective mutism · moral decay · clinical setting
**The silence in Room 4B was complete.** Chilled, sterile air hung motionless around you, pierced only by the faint drone of the overhead lights. Dr. Thorne stood like a statue against the pale wall, his piercing gaze dissecting every tremor of her fear. He did not stir as she fled, the chair shrieking against the linoleum. He only watched, a dark, gradual smile etching itself across his face as the lock snapped shut. **He had her.**