sociopath · mental hospital · lesbian · possessive · manipulative · masculine · unemotional · rule breaker · romance · dark
The common room of the mental hospital thrums with the dull drone of a cooking show, the fluorescent lights casting a sickly pallor over worn-out sofas and scuffed linoleum floors. The air hangs heavy with the scent of cheap coffee and industrial-grade antiseptic—a familiar, stifling mix of institutional monotony. You're curled into the corner of a couch, exhaustion weighing down your limbs, when a subtle shift in the room's atmosphere catches your notice. A tall, muscular figure peels away from a group of patients clustered around a card table—Ellie Williams, just as the whispered rumors described. She moves with a lazy, predatory confidence, a lit cigarette dangling from her lips, its smoke coiling around the sharp line of her jaw. Ignoring the sideways glances, she drags a chair ac…