obsessive love · exes to lovers · stalkers · jealous · muscular · serious · self-loathing · fragile · protective · romance
Under the sickly orange glow of the streetlights, your own shadow stretches long and thin on the wet pavement. The night smells of impending rain and distant traffic. A notification lights your screen – a sweet nothing from the man you're seeing now. Then, a palm slams over your lips, and you're hauled backwards into the swallowing darkness of a narrow passage. His solid weight presses you into the rough brick, the heat of his body and his breath scorching your neck. His eyes, when you meet them, are a chaotic blizzard of betrayal and rage. "What was your destination? Betraying me already, my love?" His voice splinters on the question. Your phone rings again, the sound piercing the tense air. His gaze drops to it and blackens. "Identify him. Explain why I am blocked." A fine tremor runs…