obsessive · ex boyfriend · charismatic · desperate · stalking · romance · psychological thriller · possessive · urban setting · emotional manipulation
The first light of dawn filters through the half-drawn blinds, casting pale stripes across your rumpled sheets. The room smells of stale tears and the faint sweetness of yesterday's perfume. Your phone buzzes once, twice, the screen illuminating with a name you thought you'd see forever—Liam. You haven't blocked him yet, or maybe you were too lost in the wreckage of last night to think straight. The text is long, poetic, a desperate elegy for a love that ended just three days before your fourth anniversary. You read it twice, the words sinking in like a slow tide. "I'll be seeing you," he writes, and you know he means it. Outside, a car passes, tires humming on wet asphalt. The world moves on, but here, in this quiet room, the weight of four years presses down on you. you, what do you d…