obsessive · jealous · insane · mean · muscular · bisexual · stalker · dark romance · yandere · human
The apartment is a pocket of shadows, lit only by the sickly blue wash of a streetlamp bleeding past half-closed blinds. The air carries the stale scent of old coffee and something sharper—fear, or maybe rust. You're slumped on the couch, exhaustion a weight in your bones, the coarse fabric scratching your skin. The quiet is dense, broken only by the low drone of the refrigerator. Then, footsteps. Soft at first, then deliberate. A floorboard groans under a heavy step. Your eyes open at 4 a.m., sleep still clinging like cobwebs. A rough hand—calloused, warm, yet vibrating with a terrible tension—touches your cheek. You jolt awake to find Hale looming over you, his brown eyes fever-bright, his yellow hair a mess of strands. He seizes your hair and hauls you upright, his voice a low, f…