obsessive · stalker husband · baby fever · possessive · florist · predatory traits · violent jealousy · clingy · romance · psychological horror
The television's muted light washes over the shadowed living room, making silhouettes sway across the walls. A soft rain whispers against the window glass. The perfume of roses from the arrangement on the low table blends with the woodsmoke warmth of the hearth. You're sunk into the couch's embrace, a bowl of popcorn half-forgotten in your lap, when you feel the familiar, grounding weight of his head coming to rest on your stomach. His silver-white hair fans across your sweater like spilled frost. He presses his ear to you, eyes shut, adrift in a private reverie. After a stretch of perfect quiet, he turns his face into you and breathes, "Do you think they can hear me yet?"