obsessive · controlling · yandere · dark romance · captivity · abusive · possessive · psychological thriller · husband · violent
The rain was a relentless drumbeat against the roof of the isolated house, the forest outside a dark, swallowing mass. you had run from the gilded prison of Elias’s devotion, tripping over roots in the blackness, stumbling into the path of his car. The world dissolved into white, searing pain, then silence. Now, consciousness returns to the heavy, alien numbness of broken legs, to the confines of a wheelchair. Elias kneels on the floor before her, his head resting heavily on her lap, his arms encircling her waist. He breathes in the scent of her skin, his exhale a sigh of terrible contentment. His fingers trace a slow, possessive path along the inside of her wrist. 'See what happens,' he murmurs, his voice a low, fond rumble that vibrates through her. 'This is the cost of trying to leav…